Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

[John Lamb <J.D.Lamb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Philipp Thomas wrote:
> 
> Rob Blomquist <rob.blomquist@xxxxxxxxxxx> [4.05.2002 17:10:06 -0700]:
> 
> >Obviously, I could log into
> >my wife's WinSnooze98 box and steal them, but is there a place where I could
> >get them on the web?

That's where fetchmsttfonts might help. I presume it's really just a
link to http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/default.htm. The
only really new and good font you'll get is Comic Sans. The rest are
just standard fonts or ones for web pages.

There are thousands of fonts out on the web but, Philipp is right: most
of them are useless. I only use four of about a hundred fonts that came
with M$ windows software. Try searching for specific terms, e.g. Plantin
and Gill (or Gill Sans) make a nice pair. Palatino (or Book Antiqua) is
nice. The B&H Lucida fonts are nice. They may come with StarOffice or
Java. What you probably won't find are unusual but well designed fonts
such as the London Underground font.
JDL