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Added on the 27th of October 2010.
This website is dedicated to the issue of fonts rendering in Linux. There are two main problems which are being overlooked by
Linux distros: at first they don't provide a good fonts configuration, thus even if you have fine crisp fonts obtained elsewhere
they still will look ugly and blurry. Secondly, by default Linux distros don't provide good enough fonts or fonts which are
compatible with Windows' ones. This of course leads to multiple problems: web pages look different, documents sent by people
from Windows PC's quite often have a broken formatting. There's another problem to solve. Even though people know that Windows
fonts can be copied to their Linux boxes, Windows Vista and Windows 7 fonts are incompatible with freetype hinting technology. It's
a bug that needs to be resolved, but in the meantime people want free good fonts to just look good.
This website solves
all these problems for you. Just download the free fonts listed on the top of the page and install .fonts.conf into your home
directory, e.g. /home/user
This file has the correctly set autohinging (hinting) and provides the best results only if your freetype is compiled with BCI (Byte
Code Interpreter). However mind that it's optimized for RGB monitors, so if you have another pixels orientation you should edit it
accordingly. So if you want free crisp truetype (TTF) fonts which look best on your TFT LCD monitor, which have the same or similar
appearance to the ClearType technology implemented by Microsoft, then you have come to the right page. The set of free fonts provided
here contains 100% Windows compatible fonts (aka corefonts).
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Last update: Sun Apr 8 2012