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Figure 1: In Font Manager, unneeded fonts can be disabled at the push of a button without deleting them completely from the system.

Simplify font selection with Font Manager

LINUX VOICE: Font Roundup free

Font Manager makes it simpler to find the specific font you're looking for and to compare font options side by side.

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Figure 4: With nine weights, Lato is suitable for a wide variety of uses.

Useful and Innovative Free Fonts

Open Source Fonts

25.11.2019

If you are looking for a replacement for a proprietary font, open source fonts offer plenty of options.

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Figure 1: Gentium, the font that started it all.

How Free Software Got Its Fonts

A History of Open Source Fonts

14.06.2016

With the advent of free software for non-programmers, users ran into a licensing dilemma in a world of proprietary fonts.

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The League of Moveable Type

Open Source Fonts

18.11.2014

The Free Font Movement is transforming free software, one character at a time.

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Free equivalents for standard proprietary fonts

Off the Beat: Bruce Byfield's Blog

17.10.2014

Here's the most complete list of free font equivalents that I have managed to assemble.

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11 free-licensed fonts for everyday use

Off the Beat: Bruce Byfield's Blog

14.02.2014

Some examples of the high-quality free-licensed fonts available today.

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Open Font Library: The Font Fountain

Productivity Sauce

29.01.2014

The Open Font Library (OFLB) project aims to provide an alternative destination for developers and designers looking for quality open source fonts.

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Free Culture in Evolution: Openclipart and The Open Font Library

Openclipart and The Open Font Library

19.11.2013

Compared with free software, free culture is often overlooked; however, once you start looking around the Openclipart and Open Font Library sites – two of the oldest and most successful free culture sites – you soon start to realize that free culture has evolved right alongside free software, providing free content to use with free tools.

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Type Zebra App for Google Chrome and Chromium

Productivity Sauce

24.04.2013

Thanks to Google Web Fonts, you now have access to hundreds of high-quality open source fonts, and using a simple Bash shell script, you can easily install all of them on your Linux machine. But how can you find the font you like among the hundreds of typefaces installed on your system? The Type Zebra app provides an elegant solution to the conundrum.

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Extension Watch: Google Font Previewer

Productivity Sauce

22.06.2011

The Google Web Fonts repository is a real treasure trove for anyone looking for high-quality open source fonts, but finding the font you like among dozens of available typefaces can be a time-consuming task.

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