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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 Repository/Family/Link | Fonts/Faces | Known issues? | Encoding & Coverage | Licensing | Comments
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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 | SIL OFL | |||
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 | SIL OFL | |||
Crimson Text | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic, SemiBold, Semibold-Italic | SIL OFL | |||
Droid Font Family | Droid Sans, Droid Serif, Droid Sans Mono | Apache License v.2 | |||
Gandhi Font Family | Gandhi Sans, Gandhi Serif | Librerias Gandhi
S.A. de C.V. Font License |
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Garamond No.8 | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic | AFPL | |||
Gentium Font Family | Gentium, Gentium Book | Unicode3, see here for more details | SIL OFL | See the samples | |
GNU Free Fonts | FreeSans, FreeSerif, FreeMono | GPL | |||
Heuristica | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic | SIL OFL | |||
Liberation Font Family | Liberation Sans, Liberation Serif, Liberation Mono | LiberationFontLicense | |||
Linux Libertine | Regular, Italic, SemiBold, Bold, Bold Italic, Small Capitals, Initials, Display | western latin, greek, cyrillic, IPA, see comparisson at wikipedia | GPL and SIL OFL | ||
Linux Biolinum | Regular, Italic, Bold, Keyboard | 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 | |||
[www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/bonum/index_html TexGyre Bonum] | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic | GFL | |||
TexGyre Cursor | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic | GFL | |||
http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/heros/index_html [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 | SIL OFL |
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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.
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Display Fonts
Script/Handwriting/Calligraphic Fonts
Font Repository/Family/Link | Fonts/Faces | Known issues? | Encoding & Coverage | Licensing | Comments |
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TexGyre Chorus | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic | GFL |
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Monospaced Fonts
Font Repository/Family/Link | Fonts/Faces | Known issues? | Encoding & Coverage | Licensing | Comments |
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AnonymousPro | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic | SIL OFL | |||
Cousine | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic | SIL OFL | |||
DejaVu Mono | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic | Free License | |||
Droid Sans Mono | Regular | Apache License v.2 | |||
GNU FreeMono | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic | GPL | |||
Inconsolata | Regular | SIL OFL | |||
Lekton | Regular, Italic, Bold | SIL OFL | |||
Liberation Mono | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic | LiberationFontLicense | |||
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 | GFL | |||
Ubuntu Mono | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic | SIL OFL |
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Fonts for On-Screen Use
Font Repository/Family/Link | Fonts/Faces | Known issues? | Encoding & Coverage | Licensing | Comments |
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DejaVu Font Family | DejaVu Sans, DejaVu Serif, DejaVu Mono | Free License | |||
Droid Font Family | Droid Sans, Droid Serif, Droid Sans Mono | Apache License v.2 | |||
Istok Web | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic | SIL OFL | |||
Luxi Font Family | 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.