Sample TTF Files — Download Free TrueType Fonts for Testing
TrueType Font · .ttf · MIME type font/ttf
Download a sample TTF file to test a font loader, a converter, a PDF embedder or an upload validator. These are six real TrueType faces, not placeholders: Roboto in regular and bold, Open Sans, Lora, Inter and Roboto Mono, each with its complete character set and correct name, cmap, hmtx and OS/2 tables.
TrueType stores glyph outlines as quadratic Bézier curves in a glyf table. It is the format desktop operating systems have installed natively since the early 1990s, and the format most font tooling reads first, which makes it the right starting point when you are testing a pipeline end to end.
Download sample TTF files
| File | Details | Size | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
sample-font-roboto-mono-regular.ttf | Roboto Mono Regular · SIL Open Font License 1.1 | 88 KB | |
sample-font-open-sans-regular.ttf | Open Sans Regular · SIL Open Font License 1.1 | 130 KB | |
sample-font-lora-regular.ttf | Lora Regular · SIL Open Font License 1.1 | 135 KB | |
sample-font-roboto-regular.ttf | Roboto Regular · SIL Open Font License 1.1 | 157 KB | |
sample-font-roboto-bold.ttf | Roboto Bold · SIL Open Font License 1.1 | 158 KB | |
sample-font-inter-regular.ttf | Inter Regular · SIL Open Font License 1.1 | 341 KB |
Use these files from the command line or CI
Every URL is stable and CORS-open. Pin the SHA-256 in your test and you will know the moment a fixture changes.
# Download one file curl -O https://pnb-website-bucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/samples/fonts/ttf/sample-font-roboto-mono-regular.ttf # Verify it (SHA-256 is listed for every file above) shasum -a 256 sample-font-roboto-mono-regular.ttf # Machine-readable index of every sample file curl https://pnb-website-bucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/samples/index.json | jq '.files[] | select(.format=="ttf")'
TTF format at a glance
| Full name | TrueType Font |
|---|---|
| Extensions | .ttf |
| MIME type | font/ttf |
| Standard | TrueType / OpenType (ISO/IEC 14496-22) |
| Outlines | Quadratic Bézier (glyf table) |
| Magic bytes | 00 01 00 00 |
| Licence | SIL Open Font License 1.1 |
| Character set | 778–2,849 mapped codepoints, not subset |
What people test with sample TTF files
- Font upload validation and MIME sniffing
- TTF to WOFF2 conversion and subsetting pipelines
- PDF and DOCX font embedding
- Desktop font installation testing
- Glyph and character-set inspection
- Canvas and server-side text rendering
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between TTF and OTF?
Both are OpenType files; the difference is the outline format. TTF uses quadratic curves in a glyf table, OTF uses cubic curves in a CFF table. Cubic is what type designers draw in; quadratic is what rasterizers historically preferred. Both work everywhere today, but a strict parser treats them differently, so we publish the same faces in both.
Can I install these TTF files on my computer?
Yes. They are ordinary installable fonts with fsType set to 0 (installable embedding), so double-clicking installs them on macOS, Windows and Linux. The licence permits it.
Can I use these fonts in a commercial project?
Yes. Every face is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which permits use, modification, embedding and redistribution, commercially included. You may not sell the fonts on their own, and a modified version must not keep the original reserved font name. The full licence text is published alongside the files.
Are these variable fonts?
No. The upstream sources are variable, and we instance each to a single static weight before conversion, then delete the leftover fvar, avar, STAT and gvar tables. Static faces are what font loaders, subsetters and validators are normally tested against, and an orphaned variation table is a common source of confusing failures.
Do the files contain the full character set?
Yes, the full upstream character set — between 778 and 2,849 mapped codepoints depending on the family, covering Latin, Latin Extended, Greek and Cyrillic. Nothing is subset, so these are also useful for testing that your own subsetting pipeline actually reduces the file.
Are these TTF files safe to download?
Yes. Every file is generated by our own open script from scratch — nothing is scraped or user-uploaded — and contains no scripts, macros or executables. The SHA-256 of each file is published on this page so you can verify what you received.
Can I use the sample TTF files commercially?
Yes. They are free for any purpose, including commercial products, test suites, demos and redistribution, with no attribution required. There is nothing to license and no one to ask.
Can I hotlink these files or use them in CI?
Yes. Every link is a stable direct URL over HTTPS with Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * and long cache headers, so curl, wget, fetch() and test runners can pull them directly. A JSON index of every file is linked from each page (see the command-line section).
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