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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

• 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

Fonts For Printing

Text Fonts

Font table

Font Repository/Family/Link	Fonts/Faces	Known issues?	Encoding & Coverage	Licensing	Comments
Amble	Light, Light-Italic, Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic, LightCondensed, LightCondensed-Italic,			Apache License v.2
Andika SIL	Regular			SIL OFL
Antykwa Półtawskiego	Light, Light-Italic, Regular, Italic, Medium, Medium-Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, CondensedLight, CondensedLight-Italic, Condensed, Condensed-Italic, CondensedMedium, CondensedMedium-Italic, CondensedBold, CondensedBold-Italic	?	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.
Antykwa Toruńska fonts	Light, Light-Italic, Regular, Italic, Medium, Medium-Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, CondensedLight, CondensedLight-Italic, Condensed, Condensed-Italic, CondensedMedium, CondensedMedium-Italic, CondensedBold, CondensedBold-Italic	?	Unicode, QX, cp1250, StandardEncoding, Cyrillic, Greek	Free	Mainly used for typesetting of small prints.
Arimo	Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic
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	?	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.
Asap	Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic			SIL OFL
Bergamo Std.	Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic			Free
Cabin	Regular, Italic, Medium, Medium-Italic, SemiBold, SemiBold-Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic			SIL OFL
Cantarell	Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic			SIL OFL
CartoGothic Std.	Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic			Free
Charis SIL	Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic			SIL OFL
Chivo	Regular, Italic, Black, Black-Italic			SIL OFL
Cousine	Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic
Crimson Text	Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic, SemiBold, Semibold-Italic
Droid	Droid Sans, Droid Serif, Droid Sans Mono			Apache License v.2
Gandhi	Gandhi Sans, Gandhi Serif
Garamond No.8	Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic			AFPL
Gentium fonts	Gentium	?	Unicode3, see here for more details	SIL OFL	See the samples
GNU Free Fonts	FreeSans, FreeSerif, FreeMono			GPL
Heuristica	Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic
Liberation	Liberation Sans/Serif/Monospaced
Linux Libertine	Regular, Bold, Italic, Bold Italic, Underlined, Bold Underlined	Bug 4422	western latin, greek, cyrillic, IPA, see comparisson at wikipedia	GPL and SIL OFL
M+ 1C	Thin, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, Heavy, Black		Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Japanese	Free
OpenSans	Light, Light-Italic, CondensedLight, CondensedLight-Italic, Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic, CondensedBold, Semibold, Semibold-Italic, ExtraBold, ExtraBold-Italic			Apache License v.2
Other SIL fonts	Doulos, Nastaliq, Apparatus, Dai Banna, Encore, Sophia, Manuscript, Galatia, Ezra SIL, Tai Dam, Vai, Xishuangbanna, Yi,	?	Mixed	SIL OFL	A fairly varied collection with lots of scripts covered.
PT Sans, PT Serif, PT Mono	Sans, Sans Narrow, Sans Caption, Serif, Serif Caption, Mono			PT OpenLicense
Roboto	Thin, Thin-Italic, Light, Light-Italic, Regular, Italic, Medium, Medium-Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic, Black, Black-Italic, Condensed, Condensed-Italic, BoldCondensed, BoldCondensed-Italic			Apache License v.2
TexGyre Adventor	Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic			GFL
TexGyre Bonum	Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic			GFL
TexGyre Cursor	Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic			GFL
TexGyre Heros	Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic, Condensed, CondensedItalic, CondensedBold, CondensedBold-Italic			GFL
TexGyre Pagella	Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic			GFL
TexGyre Schola	Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic			GFL
TexGyre Termes	Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic			GFL
Tinos	Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic
Ubuntu Font Family	Light, Light-Italic, Regular, Italic, Medium, Medium-Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic, Condensed			SIL OFL
UnFonts	UnBatang, UnBom, UnDotum, UnGraphic, UnGungseo, UnJamoBatang, UnJamoDotum, UnJamoNovel, UnJamoSora, UnPen, UnPenheulim, UnPilgi, UnShinmun, UnTaza, UnYetgul	?	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.

Script/Handwriting/Calligraphic Fonts

Font table

Font Repository/Family/Link	Fonts/Faces	Known issues?	Encoding & Coverage	Licensing	Comments
TexGyre Chorus	Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic			GFL

Monospaced Fonts

Font table

Font Repository/Family/Link	Fonts/Faces	Known issues?	Encoding & Coverage	Licensing	Comments
AnonymousPro	Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic			SIL OFL
DejaVu Mono	Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic			Free License
Droid Sans Mono	Regular			Apache License v.2
Inconsolata	Regular
Lekton	Regular, Italic, Bold
M+ 1M	Thin, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold		Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Japanese	Free
PT Mono	Regular, Bold			PT OpenLicense
TexGyre Cursor	Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic			OFL
Ubuntu Mono	Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic			SIL OFL

Fonts for On-Screen Use

Font table

Font Repository/Family/Link	Fonts/Faces	Known issues?	Encoding & Coverage	Licensing	Comments
DejaVu	DejaVu Sans, DejaVu Serif, DejaVu Mono			Free License
Droid	Droid Sans, Droid Serif, Droid Sans Mono			Apache License v.2
Istok Web	Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic			SIL OFL
Luxi	Luxi Sans, Luxi Serif, Luxi Mono			Luxi License (Free)
OpenSans	Light, Light-Italic, CondensedLight, CondensedLight-Italic, Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic, CondensedBold, Semibold, Semibold-Italic, ExtraBold, ExtraBold-Italic			Apache License v.2
PT Sans, PT Serif, PT Mono	Sans, Sans Narrow, Sans Caption, Serif, Serif Caption, Mono			PT OpenLicense
Roboto	Thin, Thin-Italic, Light, Light-Italic, Regular, Italic, Medium, Medium-Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic, Black, Black-Italic, Condensed, Condensed-Italic, BoldCondensed, BoldCondensed-Italic			Apache License v.2

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?