February 2005
Beginner
384 pages
9h 8m
English
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Fonts
Fonts used to be one of the big “issues” in Linux. You couldn't tell anyone that Linux was ready for the desktop while they were making faces at the weird, jagged fonts on your screen. I made those faces, too. A few versions back, we got the ability to use TrueType fonts and antialiased fonts. No one makes faces anymore.
The default fonts that come on most Linux distributions are much nicer than they used to be. The fonts in the Lucida and Nimbus families can be used in place of a favorite sans serif font such as Arial. In addition to the Linux font families, you can download fonts from the Internet to use in Fedora and Mandrake. Download almost any .ttf font file (.ttf files are usually Windows fonts) and then install it.