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Artifex Ghostscript True Type Fonts
This is a tarball of True Type versions of the Ghostscript fonts, released for use by Artifex (the commercial developer of Ghostscript) with AFPL Ghostscript. This collection includes all the URW fonts commonly shipped with most Linux distros, but also includes some additional font families, including URW Classico and a Garamond. Recommended to have for cross-platform purposes as well.
Added on: 09-Jan-2005 | hits: 159
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Comprehensive Site on Fonts and X Windows
Comprehensive Site on Fonts anf X Windows
Added on: 17-Nov-2003 | hits: 500
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Corefonts tool for MS Web Font Collection
This site has the tools to download the MS web font collection. These fonts are also very reliable printing fonts if setup properly on your workstation.
Added on: 17-Nov-2003 | hits: 292
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Dafont : download free and shareware fonts
This site contains a large choice of TT fonts to download, classified by theme. The quality is different from font to font but some of them are quite nice.
Although lots of them are free, some have a restricted use policy, so check the license of each font before using it.
Added on: 29-Oct-2004 | hits: 111
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DejaVu fonts 0.9
DejaVu fonts are Bitstream Vera fonts (http://www.bitstream.com/) with
additional characters from Latin Extended-A set (Dcaron, dcaron, Ecaron,
ecaron, Ncaron, ncaron, Rcaron, rcaron, Tcaron, tcaron, Uring, uring).
DejaVu fonts are based on Bitstream Vera fonts version 1.10.
Added on: 01-Apr-2004 | hits: 205
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Dr. Berlin\’s Foreign Font Archive
A wide selection of extended Latin and non-Latin fonts including ancient language fonts and Native American fonts.
Added on: 26-Dec-2003 | hits: 250
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Fonts for Scholars
A listing of downloadable fonts and much info Latin, Germanic Languages,Greek, Hebrew and Linguistics, especially geared towards scholars and those needing them for scholarly works, Includes info on Cardo, a Unicode font of interest to classicists, Biblical scholars, medievalists, and linguists.
Added on: 24-Feb-2005 | hits: 8
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Freetype.org
Freetype libraries. Freetype is currently at version 2.1.9, but as of version 2.1.2, there are a number of changes in the base code to prepare for the development of Freetype v2.2 and v3.0. Freetype is now included with XFree86 4.2+.
Added on: 17-Nov-2003 | hits: 377
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Gimp Font Plugin
If you have TT fonts, this is a cool plug-in for fonts effects in Gimp, which can be used for rotation, shear etc. You will need certain extensions enabled in your X server – like render.
Added on: 17-Nov-2003 | hits: 126
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Homepage for Gentium Unicode Font
This is a freely available, well designed Unicode font created as a part of a research project at the University of Reading. The Gentium font works well in Scribus and has substantial non-Latin coverage, as well as ligatures, extended symbol coverage and Diacritics for many European languages. Many other links and info on Unicode.
Added on: 17-Nov-2003 | hits: 726
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John Stracke’s Fonts
This is a small but very well done collection of interesting old style fonts, including one called Isabella, which emulates 14th century handrwriting.
Added on: 02-Dec-2004 | hits: 78
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Lido – high quality freeware font
This font family is freeware. STF provides it free of charge for non-commercial use in households, in education, for private scholars, et al. The Lido STF fonts are freeware, but not a public domain. This means that it continues to be protected by all copyrights.
Added on: 02-Dec-2003 | hits: 487
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Opcion – A Java Based Font Viewer
Opcion is a GPL Java Font Previewer – It it is cross platform and can preview uninstalled fonts. Just browse to the directory and it automatically can preview a font.
Added on: 25-Apr-2004 | hits: 66
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Open Source Font Editor
PFAEdit is an open source font editor
Added on: 17-Nov-2003 | hits: 312
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Optimal Linux Fonts howto
Linux Fonts howto, recently updated February 2005
Added on: 17-Nov-2003 | hits: 224
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Tre Type to Type 1 Font Converter
A True Type to type 1 converter. Also can create .afms, which Scribus uses for font handling. Can be compiled to run on Win32 with the Cygwin tools.
Added on: 17-Nov-2003 | hits: 72
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True Type Fonts Site
Probably the most comprehensive site on True Type Fonts outside of the site at Microsoft or Apple.
Added on: 17-Nov-2003 | hits: 430
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Type 1 Font Utilities
Type 1 utilities which ease the installation of Type 1 fonts. Some distributions include this with base install.
Added on: 17-Nov-2003 | hits: 92
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Typography and Font Guidelines
This site has an excellent set of guidelines for typography and font usage. Helpful for new designers and achieving readable documents.
Added on: 17-Nov-2003 | hits: 319
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