Downloading the fonts

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 - that advice is
obsolete on linux systems, any recent version of fontconfig will rebuild caches as necessary -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.

1001fonts
Arch Linux

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 .

Arkandis Digital Foundry

For all the ADF fonts, go to arkandis/adffonts and download the zip file(s) you require.

Baekmuk Fonts

baekmuk-ttf-2.2 can be found at the 'PROJECT DOWNLOAD' link here.

The main BLFS mirror at osuosl

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.

chinese-font-design.com

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.

Chrome OS
The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN)

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.

Debian

For the debian links, use the .orig tarball if there is one.

DejaVu

You can find the current release of this tarball at dejavu-fonts.org.

ffonts.net

Droid Sans Fallback is at Droid-Sans-Fallback.

fontlibrary.org
fontsquirrel
Georg Duffner

Mr. Duffner provides EB Garamond at EB Garamond (click on 'here' in the text).

github

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.

fonts at Google

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"

GNU freefont

This is available at gnu/freefont.

GUST

GUST, the Polish TeX Users Group, has an e-foundry which provides various fonts. It is at
gust/projects/e-foundry.

JetBrains

JetBrains Mono is available at jetbrains.com.

Latofonts

There is an old version at google, but Lato2OFL is at lato-free-fonts.

Nanum

NanumFont_TTF_ALL is available at naver.com.

Noto

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).

opendyslexic.org

This is at opendyslexic.org Please note that the perms in the zip file are all 000!

osdn.net

VL Gothic is at vlgothic.

The kochi-substitute fonts are available at efont (the link often times out)

pagure.org

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.

SIL Fonts

DoulosSIL-6.200, Harmattan-Regular_1.001, LateefRegOT_1.001, Padauk-2.8,
Scheherazade-2.100 are all at
SIL Fonts .

sourceforge
Terminus TTF

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.

Xorg

font-bh-ttf-1.0.4 is available at Xorg.

Ken Moffat, 2016-2024. E&OE