On: Is there such a thing as a web-safe font?

[albert_e]

We could make say Helvetica Libre and Times Free Roman

[amarshall → albert_e]

They already exist, but of course aren’t exactly the same https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_FreeFont

[zokier → amarshall]

Liberation/Croscore fonts are more relevant here because they are designed to be drop-in replacements (metrically compatible) for MS fonts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croscore_fonts

[amarshall → zokier]

That’s actually what I was looking for, but I forgot the name and was on mobile—thanks!

[f33d5173 → amarshall]

The gpl makes those completely useless for such a purpose.

[TingPing → f33d5173]

It uses a variant of the GPL. You can include it in any usage as a font, just modifications of the actual font are normal GPL.