Because my main table is now very wide, I assume you came here in a wide window.
I have forced
line breaks to narrow the text.
Make sure that you download either an OTF or OTC file (or TTF, TTC)
or a tarball or a zip file
(rather than a distro package - unless you are
running that distro). The 'xxC' files are collections -
more than one OTF
or TTF in the same file, to save space. If both OpenType and True Type
are
available, prefer OpenType - it can contain more variations for
software that knows how to use them.
Some of these packages contain many other fonts besides those I have
documented -
I suggest that most people will not need those other fonts,
but try them and either use or remove.
Previously I said "Do not
forget to run fc-cache after adding or removing fonts." - that
advice is
obsolete on linux systems, any recent version of fontconfig
will rebuild caches as necessary -
if you install a large number
of fonts at the same time, you might notice a short delay if you run
fc-list or fc-match in the next 30 seconds.
In many cases, particularly where the package is a zip file,
there might not be an encompassing
directory (everything just dumps into
$PWD) or (harder to spot) the perms may be wrong (I have
seen bad perms
on files and even on subdirectories). No doubt installing such files in
your home
directory does not cause a problem, but for system-wide
installs the files should be the normal 644
perms, and 755 for directories.
Yes, I assume most people know that, but it still trips me up from
time
to time when I look at a new font.
The opendesktop fonts are a successor to the fireflysung font, and the
sung font continues to use
that name, so they cannot both be installed.
The source location has varied, a while ago there were
current versions on
github, but then those got deleted. The 1.4.2 version is old, but newer than
fireflysung, and Arch has a copy at opendesktop-fonts
.
For all the ADF fonts, go to arkandis/adffonts and download the zip file(s) you require.
baekmuk-ttf-2.2 can be found at the 'PROJECT DOWNLOAD' link here.
For a long while, BLFS continued to suggest the fireflysung font. The
successor opendesktop fonts
(a TTC) are at the Arch Linux link above and are
almost certainly better than the old fireflysung font.
Because they share the
the same name in fontconfig, you cannot use both. If for some reason you
wish to
look at the original version it is at
osuosl.org.
For those of us who cannot read Chinese, this site has many fonts but most seem to
be commercial
fonts without a libre license. The link here goes to the license page for the wang-han-zong fonts.
The license itself is GPL. Below the GPL part there are
images showing the fonts, with links to
download them.
There are also other HanWang fonts available online, and in rpms at Suse,
called HanWangKai and
HanWangMing - but they have some sort of very faint markings down the right side of each glyph
and will not be usable for normal text display.
Sometimes, this is the easiest place to get a particular font:
The current versions of the Fandol OTF fonts can be found at fonts/fandol.
The original site for the IPA fonts has disappeared, they can be found at ipaex – IPA (Japanese) fonts.
NB You should use mirrors if trying to download large numbers of packages from CTAN.
For the debian links, use the .orig tarball if there is one.
You can find the current release of this tarball at dejavu-fonts.org.
Droid Sans Fallback is at Droid-Sans-Fallback.
Mr. Duffner provides EB Garamond at EB Garamond (click on 'here' in the text).
There are many fonts at github, but some are only source. I have referenced
the following in this
page. Where there is not a release, the prepared fonts of
these repositories are amongst the other
files in the repository.
In many of these repos, navigate to the files then click on each desired file and after it tells you it
cannot show such as big item click on the down arrow to download.
The butTaiwan repos have several font variations, but the sites suggest that some I do not
show are machine-generated variations and their shapes should be checked before use in
formal contexts. In general the TC variants mostly prefer the Korean Source Han shapes as
closer to traditional printing, while the TW variants match Taiwanese Education Ministry
shapes.
For GenYoMin2 see ButTaiwan/genyo-font
For GenYoGothic2 see ButTaiwan/genyog-font
Downloading these for the first time can be a bit tricky if you are not
used to the user interface.
And searching can be hard, so I will provide a
link for each font. Follow the link in a graphical
browser, click on 'Download
family'.
All of these are at URLs of the form "https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Name+Variant"
This is available at gnu/freefont.
GUST, the Polish TeX Users Group, has an e-foundry which provides various
fonts. It is at
gust/projects/e-foundry.
JetBrains Mono is available at jetbrains.com.
There is an old version at google, but Lato2OFL is at lato-free-fonts.
NanumFont_TTF_ALL is available at naver.com.
The pages for Noto at google have been reorganized, a complete (old) tarball
of all Noto fonts
is no-longer available. Unless a Noto font covers Latin alphabets or CJK
scripts, I used an old
debian tarball which contained files dated 2015/09/22 : some
of those listed might
have been revised since then.
For general help on Noto fonts, go to Noto Use.
The current fonts are all at Google fonts and use a similar way of specifying which font
is
required. For all Noto except CJK go to Noto+Sans and change the items
after 'Noto+' to
get different variations, e.g.
The Noto CJK fonts can be found at noto-cjk. The old
Noto Sans Mono CJKxx fonts can be
found underneath Sans, now as OTF with Regular
and Bold weights. For the non-monospace
fonts please navigate through the Sans
or Serif options there to decide which variant(s) are
most suitable for your
use (There are many differnet choices, both for coverage and for
weights).
This is at opendyslexic.org Please note that the perms in the zip file are all 000!
VL Gothic is at vlgothic.
The kochi-substitute fonts are available at efont (the link often times out)
The lohit fonts were originally at fedorahosted.org. When that
was closed down they took a
long time to reappear, so I had alternative
links to mirrors. But now they have reappeared
at pagure.org. I looked at
older versions.
DoulosSIL-6.200,
Harmattan-Regular_1.001, LateefRegOT_1.001, Padauk-2.8,
Scheherazade-2.100
are all at
SIL Fonts
.
The official site is
ax86.net and the latest version
is always packaged as 'latest.zip'
(follow the Java / non-windows link) but with
a versioned directory in the zip file.
font-bh-ttf-1.0.4 is available at Xorg.
Ken Moffat, 2016-2024. E&OE