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.

There are a number of very common fonts, which you can install through APT/Synaptic, including the Microsoft TrueType core fonts (e.g. Arial Black, Times New Roman).

We were talking about fonts again on IRC, and how there really isn't any decent font viewer on Linux that lets you group fonts into categories.

Google Web Fonts is net fonts provide by Google which can be use on websites or blog for nothing. There are many exciting choices fonts, and you'll be able to chose whichever fonts you like. Before using google web font on your blog, please decide where you can put the font, whether for just a blog title, posts title

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.

"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.

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...

If you converted from Windows to Ubuntu like I did, chances are that you also installed the “Microsoft Core Fonts” (Times New Roman, etc) as I also did. However, recently, I discovered fonts that I actually like better than the Microsoft fonts!

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.