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There are a lot of free fonts out there. For example, see John Strake's [http://www.thibault.org/fonts/essays/ Essays 1743 font] which was used in typesetting [http://diveintohtml5.info/index.html Dive Into HTML 5] Back in the old days, if you used Linux, you'd have to get the Microsoft Core Fonts separately from the operating system because although the fonts were not sold, they could not be distributed.
# The [https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/ Liberation Fonts], initially released in 2007, is a font family which aims at metric compatibility with '''Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New'''. It is sponsored by [[Red Hat]]. They are included in most Linux distributions.
# [https://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/index.html FreeFont by GNU]
# [[wp:Ubuntu_(typeface)]] is a family of fonts created by Canonical [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ubuntu%20Font%20Family https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ubuntu Font Family]
# We chose the [[wp:Linux Libertine|Linux Libertine]] font for our logo, and it turns out that a lot of people like this font. It's a free replacement for Times New Roman. See [[Style Guide]] for more about {{CompanyName}} font usage.
[[File:Eqt.logo.png|thumbnail|Linux Libertine]]
== Adding Fonts to stock Ubuntu ==
If you don't add some fonts to your stock Ubuntu, then you won't be able to view many PDF documents, Word documents and even webpages the way they were designed (using fonts found on Microsoft Windows or Apple Macs).
Fonts are disk hungry. This list of fonts packages will use about 222MB of disk space by including a total of 101 packages.
* ttf-mscorefonts-installer (installs Microsoft TrueType core fonts)
* edubuntu-fonts (many fonts)
* fonts-font-awesome (icons)
* fonts-octicons (github icons)
* fonts-hack-otf fonts-hack-ttf fonts-hack-web (font suitable for source code)
* fonts-oxygen (KDE)
* ubuntustudio-fonts (collection to help with graphic design, including non-free and jsMath, etc.)
You can install all these fonts with
<source lang="bash">sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer edubuntu-fonts fonts-font-awesome fonts-octicons fonts-hack-otf fonts-hack-ttf fonts-hack-web fonts-oxygen ubuntustudio-fonts</source>
== Font Artists ==