http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Open_source_typefaces Antykwa Torunska: Elegant Polish Unicode serif set by Zygfryd Gardzielewski. http://nowacki.strefa.pl/torunska-e.html Beteckna (resembles Futura) Bitstream Charter, mostly via derivatives such as Charis SIL Bitstream Vera Serif, Sans, Sans Mono (bundled with OpenOffice.org) http://www.gnome.org/fonts/ Caslon Roman: covered by the Gentium collection. Century Schoolbook: a core PostScript (Adobe 35) font, and thus also in the URW++ sets.a Chandas: OpenType font for Devanagari script Dustismo Sans, Roman: Created by Dustin Norlander. DejaVu fonts: Sans, Mono, Serif Modifications of the Bitstream Vera fonts for greater coverage of Unicode. http://dejavu-fonts.org/ Droid Sans, Droid Sans Mono and Droid Serif. Created by Ascender Corp. for Android. Gentium: Serif font, Unicode, 1500 Latin and Greek glyphs with Cyrillic coming. GNU FreeFont Project aka Free UCS Outline Fonts Project. Unicode. Consists of: FreeSerif, FreeMono, FreeSans. Liberation fonts: Sans (a substitute for Arial, Albany, Helvetica, Nimbus Sans L, and Bitstream Vera Sans), Serif (a substitute for Times New Roman, Thorndale, Nimbus Roman, and Bitstream Vera Serif) and Mono (a substitute for Courier New, Cumberland, Courier, Nimbus Mono L, and Bitstream Vera Sans Mono). http://press.redhat.com/2007/05/09/liberation-fonts/ https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/ Linux Libertine, Linux Biolinum: Libertine Open Fonts Project (Unicode font family) Libertine is a serif proportional font, a bit like Times New Roman. http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/Libertine-EN.html Lucida Console, Sans Typewriter Luxi family: Sans, Serif, Mono. Similar to Lucida, Trebuchet MS/Tahoma. Licence permits free redistribution but not modification. Microsoft's Webcore fonts: said to be best available for onscreen. http://avi.alkalay.net/software/webcore-fonts/ Main webfonts as specified in microsoft.com/typography: Andale Mono, Arial, Arial Black, Comic Sans MS, Courier New, Georgia, Impact, Lucida Sans, Lucida Console, Microsoft Sans Serif, Symbol, Tahoma, Times New Roman, Trebuchet, Verdana, Webdings, Wingdings, Wingding 2, Wingding 3. Vista / Office 2007 fonts: Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Consolas, Constantia, Corbel. Microsoft TrueType Core Fonts: Win95 through XP fonts http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ Nimbus family: Mono, Roman, Sans: From URW++. Similar to Courier New, Times New Roman, Helvetica. Contained in GhostScript, and is a standard typeface in OO.o. Toga Sans, Serif: Based on Bitstream Vera Sans, best used as a screen-optimised replacement for DejaVu Sans Condensed, which was merged into DejaVu Sans in a way that makes it unusable to many popular programs. http://www.binara.com/toga/ URW Bookman, Chancery, Courier, Gothic, Palladio, Palatino Utopia: Transitional serif typeface, donated by Adobe to TUG in 2006. Bitmap fonts: matrix of dots, non-scalable. bitmap printer fonts, e.g., pk fonts generated by dvips (TeX) bitmap screen fonts, used by X and the console, bdf or pcf extension Type 1 v. TrueType: Both are scalable outline fonts. Type 1 uses cubic curves for glyphs. TrueType is limited to quadratic curves. TrueType hinting support is better: Type 1 has hinting capability, but it is not as extensive. OTOH, well hinted TrueType fonts are rare / expensive (from Monotype and some other foundries). Conversion is lossy. "Type 42" is a PostScript font-header convention for access to TrueType fonts. Stripping fonts: Get old copies of MS-Word or WordPerfect. Type 1 on Linux needs afm (Adobe font metrics) metrics file (not pfm = printer font metrics). Also outline file containing the glyphs (pfb = PostScript Font Binary or pfa = PostScript Font ASCII). Note usefulness of pfm2afm utility. The metrics file includes data on kerning and ligatures. Type 3 is _not_ supported by X11. TrueType is single-file (ttf). Mac Type 1 fonts: unpack using t1unmac from t1utils package. TT Fonts in Debian HOWTO (old) * XFree86 stores its fonts in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ * Ghostscript stores its fonts in /usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts/ * TeX stores its fonts in /usr/lib/texmf/fonts/ * The Debian kbd package stores its fonts in /usr/share/consolefonts/ * Groff stores its metrics in /usr/share/font/devps/ * Enscript (ASCII to PostScript converter) stores its metrics in /usr/share/enscript/*.afm Modern FreeType config files: * /etc/fonts/fonts.conf * /etc/fonts/local.conf * /etc/fonts/conf.d/*.conf (recommended) Font servers: xfstt, xfsft (obsolete; client-side fonts preferred) Two X11 font subsystems: core X font subsystem (being phased out) fontconfig + xft2 library (based on FreeType; newer): can render bitmap pcf screen fonts, Type1 fonts, TrueType fonts BCI (bytecode interpreter)-enabled FreeType. Debian package libfreetype6. Also subpixel renderering. Vs. auto-hinting default in freetype2, which is default in many distros. BCI gain is minimal, and effectively necessitates disabling anti-aliasing in several places such as OO.o. Subpixel rendering is, in the opinion of many, problematic: You can see the colours. Anti-aliasing best avoided at sizes below 10pt: Use well-hinted fonts for small sizes, isntead. OpenOffice.org uses its own font subsystem (still?). Open Font License TrueType -> OpenType (Microsoft trademark): Adobe finished converting over its entire portfolio in late 2002. FreeType library: supports TrueType, Type 1, OpenType, others Pango (text rendering engine) FontForge (formerly PfaEdit): BSD-licensed font editor/converter http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxListOfFonts.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/10/25/fabulous_fonts_in_linux/ http://freetype.sourceforge.net/ http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO/ (old) http://neosmart.net/blog/2006/a-comprehensive-look-at-the-new-microsoft-fonts/ http://jeffmilner.com/index.php/2007/10/02/vista-fonts/ http://www.oooninja.com/2008/01/calibri-linux-vista-fonts-download.html http://andrealazzarotto.com/2009/03/19/come-installare-i-font-di-microsoft-office-2007-in-linux/ http://web.archive.org/web/20061005092154/http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/originalfonts.html http://www.bluesky.com/download/ http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/ (both Metafont and Type 1 present) http://www.acidfonts.com/ http://www.scribus.net/?q=links/fonts http://beranger.org/index.php?article=2150&page=3k http://avi.alkalay.net/linux/docs/font-howto/Font.html (replaces Font HOWTO) http://web.archive.org/web/20071011222253/http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/5682/postscript.html http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/fonts/postscript-type-1-fonts.html https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Fonts http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Font-FAQ http://web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/fonts.html http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/res_fonts.htm http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/res_fontsamp.htm http://www.sabi.co.uk/Notes/linuxFonts.html http://linuxondesktop.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.html http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/fonts/ http://czyborra.com/unifont/HEADER.html