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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