Fonts
- Recursive – a five-axis variable font. This enables you to freely adjust Monospace, Casual, Weight, Slant, and Cursive.
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- Merriweather, Montserrat, Pluto Sans, Tisa, Droid Sans, Playfair Display, Minion, Open Sans, Bookerly, Literata
- Atkinson – hyperlegible font by the Braille Institute
- Did you know Fonts could do all this? (Patrick Louis, 2020)
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
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mkdir -p ~/.local/share/fonts && cd /tmp && git clone https://go.googlesource.com/image && cp -v image/font/gofont/ttfs/*.ttf ~/.local/share/fonts/ && fc-cache -fv- available for LaTeX (Fedora:
texlive-gofonts)
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- BitstromWera Nerd Font Mono
Fonts for publishing
These look good in papers or books and are optimised for pleasing aesthetics and readability of long texts.
- Charis SIL – designed to make long texts pleasant and easy to read, even in less than ideal reproduction and display environments.
readable fonts
- PT Serif
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.