300+ Easily Installed Free Fonts for Ubuntu May 21, 2007
Posted by Carthik in applications, gnome, looks and feel, packages, ubuntu.trackback
Ubuntu offers a lot of fonts, in addition to the defaults installed, and the MicroSoft msttcorefonts package, in its repositories. All these fonts mentioned here are provided as packages, which can easily installed using command line tools like apt-get or using Synaptic. These fonts will come in handy for designing flyers, or for designing headers and graphics for the web using the Gimp. Also, some of these fonts are pretty commonly used to render pages, like Lucida.
I will save the packages with the biggest collection of fonts for the end here. Since I have included screenshots of most of the fonts, and this article is sorta long, please read on by clicking the “More” link below.
Gentium
This is one of my favorite fonts. Gentium calls itself a “Typeface for the Nations”, and looks beautiful. You can install Gentium by doing a:
$sudo apt-get install ttf-gentium
The design is intended to be highly readable, reasonably compact, and visually attractive. The additional ‘extended’ Latin letters are designed to naturally harmonize with the traditional 26 ones. Diacritics are treated with careful thought and attention to their use. Gentium also supports both polytonic and monotonic Greek, including a number of alternate forms. These fonts were originally the product of two years of research and study by the designer at the University of Reading, England, as part of an MA program in Typeface Design.
Fonts from Dustismo
These designer fonts were designed by Dustin Norlander of Dustismo. Here’s some sample of the fonts:
You can install all of Dustin’s fonts using:
$sudo apt-get install ttf-dustin
George Williams’ Fonts
George Williams is a font developer (with his own Wikipedia page, no less!) who provided the fonts Monospace, Caslon, Caliban and Cupola. Check out the samples below:
You can install these fonts using:
$sudo apt-get install ttf-georgewilliams
Some Juicy Fonts
The ttf-sjfonts package provides the two fonts, Delphine and Steve Hand which are also available from sourceforge. These are two handwriting fonts, as seen below:
You can install these two fonts using:
$sudo apt-get install ttf-sjfonts
Sun Java6 Fonts - Lucida
Installing the sun-java6-fonts package installs the Lucida fonts and also installs the java6 binary package - so if you install the font package you get Java6 for free! This seems to be weird, but this post is about fonts. The package install Lucida Sans, Lucida Bright and Lucida Typewriter:
You can install these three fonts using:
$sudo apt-get install sun-java6-fonts
Caution: This will also install sun-java6-bin etc - so you will have a working Sun Java 6 if you choose to install this. This is not a “bad” thing, but it can take some time to download and install.
Larabie Fonts
Ray Larabie has been “making fonts and giving them away since 1996″ on the popular font destination LarabieFonts.com. We have three packages in Ubuntu that provide the Larabie fonts, or at least the ones that are free. These three packages provide the “Deco”, “Straight” and “Uncommon” Larabie fonts. Since there are way too many of these fonts, 300+ ? I lost count after a hundred :-), I will link you to a pdf file with samples of all the fonts. Click on the preview below to see the Larabie Fonts Catalogue (Size: 2.5 MB):
You can install all of the Larabie fonts using:
$sudo apt-get install ttf-larabie-deco ttf-larabie-straight ttf-larabie-uncommon
Of course, you could just install one of these packs by removing the names of the other two packages.
Summary
If you want to get all the fonts in one go, use the following command:
$sudo apt-get install ttf-gentium ttf-dustin ttf-georgewilliams ttf-sjfonts sun-java6-fonts ttf-larabie-deco ttf-larabie-straight ttf-larabie-uncommon
These fonts should together provide enough gunpowder for the novice graphic designer in Ubuntu. If you are wondering how I took the sample screenshots, the answer is gnome-specimen, which provides an easy way to preview the fonts installed on your system. It can be installed using:
$sudo apt-get install gnome-specimen
To see more free fonts that are available for Linux systems, visit the Free Font Resources for Open Source OSes Page - it seems to be current since I can already find the Red Hat Liberation Font listed there.
If I missed any TrueType font packages in Ubuntu here, please let me know in the comments.
Update: If you add Seveas’ feisty-extras repository, you can get your hands on the ttf-fossfonts package.
ttf-fossfonts is a collection of 108 GPL/Public-Domain licenced .ttf fonts. Included are the Tuffy family with extended members, and the Open Bar Codes project fonts. The package suggests several other worthwhile font packages.
Your screenshot only display ASCII-7bit sample. Since we’re not in the 80s anymore, it may be usefull to display sample from the UTF-8 range
Hi Benji2,
I just ran with the default text for preview in gnome-specimen. As it is, putting together this article took over 2 hours. In any case, I hope the samples provide a sufficiently clear overview of what a font looks like. I hope you understand.
Very nice! Hopefully Ubuntu could have more of this installed by default. I certainly get a lot of requests for more fonts from users all over.
Don’t forget ttf-fossfonts from mirror.ubuntulinux.nl
Thank you Dennis - updated the post to reflect that too, without screenshots though.
These are great, thanks!
I remember seeing that having loads of fonts installed slowed down windows a great deal. Does anyone know if there are any performance hits under Ubuntu?
Justin,
I don’t see why that should happen on Ubuntu - though I don’t have any quantitative measure or tool to back up what I think.
Some very weird fonts there, but nice ones as well…
Check out also these other open font packages:
ttf-linux-libertine ttf-mgopen ttf-sil-charis ttf-sil-doulos ttf-ubuntu-title
Other great open fonts are being packaged:
Andika DesRev, Inconsolata, Old Standard, Briep, the many GFS revivals
See the open font catalogs for the links:
http://scripts.sil.org/OFL_fonts
http://unifont.org/fontguide/
I agree about the UTF-8, as I’m a spanish speaker and i do need characters as á, é, í, ó, ú, ñ I’d like to see if those are included.
Err, by the way i forgot to tell you thanks, thanks for your time you spent puting this together. And that it was only a sugetsion, xD
thanks for the tips
You should also add the TrueType version of the Computer Modern (cm) fonts used by default in TeX and LaTeX. I find them very professional looking.
Not sure what the package is, though. I use LaTeX myself, so I don’t need to have the .ttf files for them.
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i never see some of the fonts here!.. good stuff..thanks! for sharing..
Any easy way to install Liberation Font from Redhat (https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/)??? Thx
Most of those fonts are so cool!
You made no mention of the Linux Libertine family of fonts:
http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/
They are very nice and part of the Universe repository in the package linux-libertine.
Don’t forget DejaVu
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I think I should write another post covering some of the great suggestions in this thread. Some more research will be required, and more screenshots.
Nice! Thanks for telling us about this!
thanks… very handy.
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One of the best MS fonts is Tahoma. But it’s not part of the msttcorefonts package. Remember to save it before you flatten XP to install Ubuntu and then install it by hand.
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What Ubuntu really needs in this area is a program that can easily locate, download, install, preview, disable and categorise fonts. Oh, and tag them by usage (display, code editing, “fun”), Unicode coverage and rate them by popularity too.
I’m thinking of a cross between Mac OS X’s Fontbook and Ubuntu’s current Add/Remove Applications & Synaptic.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/fontbook/
Anyone know of something like this already in existance?
Is it possible to use these fonts at Windows XP ?
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Great job, carthik! I am gonna bookmark this one! Thanks a lot!
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These fonts.. do they include various national caracters (æ,ø,å,üö … etc.)?
Following some link from this entry, I see my wish for a centralised repository is going to happen starting with a web front end, with an desktop client planned.
It’s the Open Font Library being launched under the banner of the Open Content Library
http://www.opencontentlibrary.org/
http://www.openfontlibrary.org/ (this link seems temporarily down at the moment)
Seems like an excellent project to support.
Are there any good font management tools for Linux? I’m running Ubuntu 7.04 and I’d love to remove most of the fonts but keep them handy for when I need them.
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Umm, not to be painful or anything, but are any of these fonts of production quality? Do they support kerning, true small caps, ligatures? Incidentally, does Ubuntu support these features?
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Thanks! Didn’t know Gentium was out there yet - that one’s awesome. I’d read about it ages ago, but it’s only when you mentioned it that it occurred to me that I can now use it. Awesome!
Hebrew users should look for the packages culmus and culmus-fancy, which contain high-quality Hebrew fonts.
Also, there is quite few free TTF fonts makers which can help you create rich designs.
Few days ago I wrote something similar in my blog in plain Hebrew.
Great blog, as I’m new to the world of ubuntu. I have it installed on an old PIII box and hope to use it to run a home server and brush up on my sysadmin skills.
Thanks for this article!
I have Ubuntu on my other PC and would love to get these to it. If possible you should throw up another thread on how to get these into Windows.
And don’t forget the beautiful fonts from exljbris: http://www.josbuivenga.demon.nl
See also the article about the 25 best free quality fonts: http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/20-best-license-free-official-fonts
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> I hope the samples provide a sufficiently clear overview of what a font looks like.
No, they don’t. Sorry.
Some common problems among writers,hopin to have these fonts in my pc…
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Nice work i am installing them all now.
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apt-get install ttf-mgopen are very nice as well…
MgOpen {Canonica,Cosmetica,Modata,Moderna}
What’s especially good about them is that they look very good on small sizes, which is a quite a virtue for a font…
RH issued the liberation-fonts package.
Prostite za moy angliyskiy. Russkie fonty tam est?
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Thanks for the time and the effort you took to put this togeter. If you don’t mind, I’m going to translate your article in Italian, so that more people will be able to benefit from your work.
Thanks a lot!
I wrote something similar to this in my blog
This is a great guide. I have several of the fonts you listed, like the top ones, which I seriously love. However, there are some very ugly fonts on my computer, and I want to delete them. The only thing is that I don’t know how to delete them. So please tell me how if you want to! Also, I would like to download Tahoma and Helvetica. Is it possible? Thanks!
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After using this command:
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All of the fonts in firefox on my Gusty Gibbon install went light grey and puny, same with the terminal. After doing an:
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Everything went back to good again. FYI. Thanks for the fonts
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