Leopard, Darwine 0.9.58, Freetype 2.3.5, FontForge py25-20080302, Symlinks fonts, Darwine SDK. Tiger should be out sometime on sunday or monday (hopefully).

Ever since I started to use Linux I have always seen how to's on fixing the look of fonts. All of them claimed to make fonts look smoother and nicer. I never tried any of them because I thought, "my fonts look fine." Also I was to lazy to do any of the fixes...

The artwiz fonts are a set of small futuristic fonts for x11, created by Artwiz,TigerT,and Daniel Erat.These fonts are most popular with openbox/fluxbox users.

New Fonts for Old: I’ve been playing around with fonts in Gutsy recently, so I thought I would document on this blog.

Linux today has very good looking fonts, however, some of the people who migrated from Windows still feel the lack of Windows Type fonts. Luckily we have two very good options Install the core fonts.

With libraries of thousands of fonts to handle, designers need a way to quickly locate fonts and organize them into meaningful categories -- such as by the project that requires them -- and to disable fonts when they are not in use so that they don't clog system memory.

winetricks 20080523 released : Dan Kegel made a small update to winetricks. Look at the list below to see whats fixed and download the new version. Here are the main changes since the 20080519 release :

r52 :

* rotate sourceforge mirrors to avoid getting stuck on bad one
* cope with users who rename c:/windows/Fonts to c:/windows/fonts
* more conservative advice on sha1sum mismatches

If you are a graphic and web designer, the default fonts that came with Ubuntu will surely be not enough for your needs. However, if you know where to look, you can find plenty of additional fonts that can help get the job done.

"Most problems when opening Word documents under GNU/Linux are due to missing fonts. Therefore, Red Hat published a set of fonts metric-compatible with the Windows core fonts last year. However, there were some concerns regarding the licensing that prevented many other distros to ship them.