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Common Fonts

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This is a list of fonts that are common to various operating systems, as well as other freely available fonts. You can use this to see what You can use this to determine which ones are available in your computer, and to see what the fonts you don't have may look like.

Fonts not available on your system will show using your default font.

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Let me know if you think other fonts should be included in this list. Especially other Libre fonts.

Generic Font Families

  • serif
  • sans-serif
  • cursive
  • fantasy
  • monospace

Common Fonts

Bitstream

  • Bitstream Charter
  • Bitstream Vera Sans
  • Bitstream Vera Sans Mono
  • Bitstream Vera Serif

DejaVu

These are based on the Bitstream Vera fonts, but they include a larger set of unicode glyphs.

  • DejaVu Sans
  • DejaVu Sans Condensed
  • DejaVu Sans Mono
  • DejaVu Serif
  • DejaVu Serif Condensed

Fonts included in Ghostscript (Supplied by URW)

These should be common in almost all linux distributions

  • Century Schoolbook L
  • Nimbus Mono L
  • Nimbus Sans L
  • Nimbus Roman No9 L
  • URW Bookman L
  • URW Chancery L
  • URW Gothic L
  • URW Palladio L
  • Standard Symbols L
  • Dingbats

Liberation Fonts

These fonts are available freely under the GPL v2 license from Redhat.

  • Liberation Sans
  • Liberation Serif
  • Liberation Mono

Assorted Libre (OFL, PD & GPL licensed) fonts

  • Junicode
  • Beteckna Lower Case
  • Ink Calligraphy (inkcalig)
  • Goudy Bookletter 1911

Microsoft XP Core fonts

These are also included in Mac OS X

  • Andale Mono
  • Arial
  • Comic Sans MS
  • Courier New
  • Georgia
  • Impact
  • Times New Roman
  • Trebuchet MS
  • Verdana
  • Webdings

Common Windows fonts

  • Lucida Console
  • Palatino Linotype
  • Tahoma

Common OSX fonts

  • Apple Garamond
  • Apple Gothic
  • Apple LiGothic
  • Futura Medium
  • Geneva
  • Gill Sans
  • Gill Sans Light
  • Helvetica
  • Lucida Grande
  • Palatino
  • Tahoma

Invalid generic font families

These are incorrectly used as generic font families in many sites.

  • mono
  • sans
  • fixed
  • variable

Fonts included with Microsoft Office

  • Century Gothic
  • Monotype Corsiva
  • Book Antiqua
  • Bookman Old Style
  • Franklin Gothic Medium