Right font 4 right purpose

Introduction

The following list should provide an overview of free and non-free fonts known to behave well on screen and/or in print. Anyone is invited to add his favourite fonts and comment on his experience with them. If you don't feel like playing with the table entries, just hit the Discussion tab and describe your fonts in plain text, and other users will insert an table row for you, then.

The table columns and their meaning:

• Font Repository -- Source of fonts and link if applicable

• Fonts -- List of included font families and/or faces

• Quality/Suitability -- What quality level the fonts are at and what they are well suited for, eg pro printing, home printing. Generally 'pro' - ie professional printing on RIPs - can be assumed to include less demanding uses too.

• Known issues? -- Any problems that may occur. Most fonts with any known problems should simply be avoided, but sometimes there are valid reasons to use them anyway - so long as you know there may be consequences.

• Coverage -- Notes about the fonts' glyph coverage and, if known, encoding.

• Licensing -- Extremely brief licensing/availability/conditions and licensing link where possible. E.g. "free," "free for non-commercial use," "commercial"

• Comments -- Any additional information you consider important

Font list

Font table

Font Repository / Font Family /Link	Fonts	Type	Quality/Suitability	Known issues?	Encoding & Coverage	Licensing	Comments
Lido	?	OTF or TTF	Pro quality		Latin-1 / ISO-8859-1?	No cost for non-commercial use
Artifex Ghostscript TTF	A028, A030, Antique Olive, Century Schoolbook, URW Clarendon, Coronet, Dingbats, Garamond, Letter Gothic, Mauritius, Nimbus, U001, U001 Condensed, URW Bookman, URW Chancery, URW Classico, URW Gothic, URW Palladio	TTF	Pro quality	?	Latin-1 / ISO-8859-1?	Free	Includes URW fonts shipped with most Linux distros, but also some additional font families, like URW Classico and a Garamond. Donated by URW.
CorelDraw fonts	? (lots)	TTF, PS	Mixed. The bitstream fonts are pro quality.	Some inferior quality fonts included, be careful.	Unknown	Commercial	Includes some high quality Bitstream fonts. Copies of Corel Draw can often be picked up cheap, but these fonts are in no way free.
Gentium fonts	Gentium	?	Pro	?	Unicode3, see here for more details	Free	See the samples
Other SIL fonts	Doulos, Nastaliq, Apparatus, Dai Banna, Encore, Sophia, Manuscript, Galatia, Ezra SIL, Tai Dam, Vai, Xishuangbanna, Yi,	Mixed	?	?	Mixed	Mixed	A fairly varied collection with lots of scripts covered.
Antykwa Toruńska fonts	?	Type1, TTF, OTF	?	?	Unicode, QX, cp1250, StandardEncoding, Cyrillic, Greek	Free	Mainly used for typesetting of small prints.
UnFonts	UnBatang, UnBom, UnDotum, UnGraphic, UnGungseo, UnJamoBatang, UnJamoDotum, UnJamoNovel, UnJamoSora, UnPen, UnPenheulim, UnPilgi, UnShinmun, UnTaza, UnYetgul	TTF	?	?	Korean?	Free - GPL. IMPORTANT: See FSF on the GPL and fonts. Caution is advised when using these in documents you don't want to license under the GPL.	While the project page is listed as pre-alpha, the fonts are >= 1.0 and seem solid.
MS Core TrueType fonts	Andale, Arial, MS Comic Sans, Courier, Georgia, Impact, Times, Trebuchet, Verdana, Webdings	TrueType	Pro	Webdings can cause issues, but should be handled OK by Scribus.	Largely latin-1	Free download. details.
Antykwa Półtawskiego TTF Type1	Regular, Bold, Italic, Bold Italic	TrueType, Type 1	Pro quality	?	QX	Free	Polish traditional font, English description,font preview. For more well designed Polish free fonts refer to this Polish TeX User Group font website.
Linux Libertine	Regular, Bold, Italic, Bold Italic, Underlined, Bold Underlined	TrueType, OpenType	?	Bug 4422	western latin, greek, cyrillic, IPA, see comparisson at wikipedia	GPL and OFL

Other Sources

Here you can find information about other possible sources of fonts and links to information about fonts.

• Scribus Documentation - Fonts
• Wikipedia - Typefaces Category
• Where can I get good fonts?