Fonts

↓ Good free (as in libre) fonts:

Good fonts with libre licenses:

1. Gentium - quite attractive multi-lingual serif font
   • single weight in regular and italic, excellent unicode support (extended Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts), some ligatures, bold coming “real soon now,” hinting varies at screen resolutions
   • License: SIL open font license
   • The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over the Lazy Dogs. (|Il1234567890O)
2. DejaVu - serif, sans serif, sans serif mono, serif condensed, and sans condensed
   • Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic
   • each family has regular (book), bold, italic (oblique) and bold italic; rather tall x-height (good for screens); some kerning issues (e.g. “Ju”)
   • License: here
   • The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over the Lazy Dogs. (|Il1234567890O)
3. URW Fonts: a collection of high quality fonts (larger collection: Artifex, under “URW fonts”)
   • URWBookmanL, Century Schoolbook L, URWChanceryL, GaramondNo8 (?), URWGothicL, Nimbus Mono L, Nimbus Roman No9 L, Nimbus Sans L, Palatino, URWPalladioL, URW-Standard Symbols L, URW-Symbol-medium, URW-Zapf Chancery, URW-Zapf Dingbats
   • most have book and demibold, some in light
   • License: GPL, ReadMe (originally released with GhostScript: GNU, GhostScript.com; extended by Valek Filippov)
   • The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over the Lazy Dogs. (|Il1234567890O)
4. Linux Libertine - serif
   • includes glyphs for western latin, greek, cyrillic, IPA, and more
   • Typophile discussion
   • License: GPL and OFL
   • The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over the Lazy Dogs. (|Il1234567890O)
5. Bitstream Vera - serif, sans serif, and sans serif mono
   • rather tall x-height (good for screens)
   • License: here
   • The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over the Lazy Dogs. (|Il1234567890O)
6. Junicode - serif created for medievalists (but works well for those born later)
   • nearly complete Latin Unicode, semi-tall line height
   • License: GPL
   • The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over the Lazy Dogs. (|Il1234567890O)

Fonts with varying licenses:

• Bitstream Cyberbit - serif
  • very tall line height
  • License: here (.wri file)
  • The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over the Lazy Dogs. (|Il1234567890O)
• Liberation Sans - serif, sans serif, and mono
  • License: GPL+ exceptions
  • The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over the Lazy Dogs. (|Il1234567890O)
• Fertigo
• Fontin
• Fontin Sans
• Delicious
• Lido - similar to “Times”
  • License: here (varies for multiple computers or publishing)
  • The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over the Lazy Dogs. (|Il1234567890O)

↓ Programmer fonts:

1. Proggy Fonts - mono (.ttf .pcf .fon), my fav is Proggy Clean Slashed 0
2. ProFont and Sheldon - all characters easily differentiated, works well at tiny point sizes
3. Keith Deven's list - long list of links with brief commentary

↓ Unicode & UTF-8 Fonts:

1. Unicode.org: great resource
2. Gentium - quite attractive multi-lingual serif font, single weight in regular and italic, excellent unicode support (extended Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts), some ligatures, (SIL open font license)
3. Junicode - midieval (GPL?)
4. Bitstream's Cyberbit
5. Wikipedia on Unicode Fonts
6. Code 2000
7. Everson Typography: European alphabets
8. Alan Wood
9. Midieval Unicode Font Initiative (MUFI): varying licenses
10. Unifont Guide for Open Source
11. Stix fonts
12. UTF-8 sampler
13. UTF-8 fonts
14. Unicode Consortium

↓ Collections of Free (mostly libre) Fonts:

1. dafont - free and GPL fonts (some retail?)
2. Larabie Fonts - ttf are free but PostScript & OpenType are commercial
3. 25 free fonts - some free, others free for non-commercial use
4. 1001 Free Fonts
5. MastersTech
6. FryFonts - free
7. Tom7 - funky free fonts
8. MS's Core fonts - for Linux
9. Chank's free fonts
10. Smashing Magazine

↓ Collections of Free (gratis), Shareware, & Commercial Fonts:

• Wanted Fonts - freeware and shareware
• Letramania - (Spanish)
• Font Freak - free and shareware fonts
• Font Garden
• Search Free Fonts: categories
• Luc Devroye's font info: large collection of font info, including math fonts
• Scholar's fonts
• Font Files - no longer updated?
• Aenigma
• Yamada - guide to non-English fonts
• Web Page Publicity

Mostly Commercial Fonts

• Font Pool - mostly commercial
• Simply the Best - mostly free for personal use, otherwise commercial

Sites with links to fonts:

• dmoz - links to fonts
• Font Leech links
• Web Page Design For Designers - links to fonts
• Font Lover - blog about font sites

↓ Font Design, Font Tools, & Misc. Info:

1. Font Forge: design your own fonts
2. Font use cross-platform compatibility
3. Fontifier - create font from your own handwriting
4. Fonts for Flash
5. Font Freak - font tool links
6. Sigmund Utility
7. Sign Language
8. Think Box
9. U&Lc
10. alt.binaries.fonts - FAQ
11. comp.fonts - FAQ
12. Times (new) Roman

Identify Fonts:

• Identifont - describe a font
• What the Font? - upload a graphic of a font for identification

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