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Fonts

Free and Libre alternatives to mainstream fonts

Many fonts have Free1 clones as alternatives. Instead of paying huge sums for "standard fonts", the Open Source font community recreated those to be freely used in any kind of project. The following table suggests some Free fonts nearly identical or at least similar to paid fonts.

"original" font alternative
Arial Liberation Sans
Arimo
Calibri Carlito
Cambria Caladea
Candara Linux Biolinum
Comic Sans Comic Neue
Courier New Liberation Mono
Cousine
Georgia Domine
Gotham Montserrat
Helvetica Source Sans Pro
Roboto
Arimo
Liberation Sans
Impact Anton / Antonio
Oswald
Proxima Nova Montserrat
Times New Roman Liberation Serif
Tinos
Linux Libertine
Interstate
Highway Gothic
Overpass

Programming Fonts

Fonts for publishing

These look good in papers or books and are optimised for pleasing aesthetics and readability of long texts.

readable fonts

Installation in your operating system

Linux

copy files to ~/.local/share/fonts and run fc-cache -fv in your favourite terminal.

Windows

double click font and click install.


[1] Free meaning "free" as in "free beer" and as in freedom.