Fonts

Having extra fonts on your computer can be quite useful. They can be great for making documents intended for print, such as greeting cards, making graphics, or even just finding something easier on the eyes for day to day computing. There are many great places to get fonts free of charge online without having to bother with buying them. We listed a few of the many great resources below.

Specific Font Faces

• Bitstream Vera Fonts -- A font set created as a joint effort between GNOME and Bitstream. These fonts are already standard on many Linux distributions.
• DejaVu Font Set
• Liberation fonts -- A set of fonts made by Red Hat to replace common Windows fonts. These are very high quality and can be used on any platform, despite the goal.
• Profont Programming Font

Repositories of Fonts

• 1001 Fonts
• 1001 Free Fonts
• Absoltely Fonts
• Abstract Fonts
• Acid Fonts
• Better Fonts -- Allows for previewing large amounts of text at a time.
• Blambot Comic Fonts & Lettering
• Dafont
• Dingbat Depot
• exljbris font foundry
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• Free Font Resources for Free Open Source Operating Systems
• Font Freak
• Font Maniac
• Fonts 500
• Fontso
• Free Mac Fonts
• Font Search Engine
• Free-Fonts
• Free Fonts at WebpagePublicity.com
• Great Free Fonts
• Jabroo
• John Stracke's Fonts
• KDE-Look Fonts -- Most of these fonts are going to be easiest to install from Linux, as they are made by Linux users.
• NetFontes
• OFL Fonts
• Open Font Library
• Programmer's Fonts -- A list of fonts that are good for programmers. These are all monospaced fonts.
• Simply the Best Fonts
• Search Free Fonts
• Unicode Fonts for Windows Computers
• UrbanFonts
• Wanted Fonts

Commercial Font Repositories

Sometimes the most elegant fonts require payment.

• Adobe Fonts
• Bitstream Fonts

Create your own

• FontForge -- A free utlity to create fonts.
• Fontifer -- A commercial utility that allows you to create a font out of your own handwriting.

How to Install Fonts

The first step is always to extract the files if they are in an archive format, such as .zip, .7z, and .tar.gz. If you are on Windows and cannot open an archive, try out 7 Zip. It is a free utility that can extract most archive formats.

• On Linux, copy ttf files to /home/yourusername/.fonts . If this folder does not exist, you can create it. If you are on KDE, you can check out these instructions.
• On Mac OS X, double click the font file and then click "Install font."
• On Windows, copy ttf files to C:/WINDOWS/Fonts