Nicest fonts...

[xxx6]

Hi

for buntus 14.04 ...

tia!

[DogMatix]

Personal favourite of mine is the Liberation font family, which I generally turn to. It has sans, serif & mono variants and looks slick and are GNU GPL (I think.)

[xxx6]

Liberation font family, which I generally turn to. It has sans, serif & mono variants and looks slick

how to install it? what bout droid??

tia!

[silex89]

Thumbs up for ttf-droid-sans. Awesome fonts. Check out as well Artwiz Fonts and Frutiger. There are a couple of fonts in those packages that are marvelous.

Best of Luck!

[buzzingrobot]

Fonts are packaged and available in the Ubuntu repos. Search for them with Software Center, Synaptic, etc.

if you install fonts manually, you can place them in /usr/share/fonts and they will be available to any user on the machine. Or, you can creat a ".fonts" directory in your home folder, place the new fonts there, and they will be available only to you.

When you install fonts manually, you either need to log in and out, or open a terminal and run "fc-cache -fv" and "sudo fc-cache -fv", to make the system aware of them.

The basic Microsoft fonts -- Arial, Verdana, etc. -- are available in the ubuntu-restricted-extras package (which also installs Flash and a number of codecs) or in the "ttf-mscorefonts-installer" package.

Google font collection (https://www.google.com/fonts) is a good source.

On Unity, I prefer Ubuntu Medium for window titles and interface use, Droid Sans Mono for monospace and terminal use, and stay with the default Sans (which is Deja Vu Sans) for documents. I also like Opens Sans and Noto Sans. On Gnome, I stay with the defaults, and find Cantarell Bold displays better than most other bolded fonts I've used.

[grahammechanical]

Ubuntu installs Libreoffice by default and Libreoffice comes with fonts that are then available to other applications. I do not think that the Libreoffice developers would use proprietary fonts. Liberation font is part of the default Libreoffice set of default fonts.

Regards.

[xxx6]

On Unity, I prefer Ubuntu Medium for window titles and interface use, Droid Sans Mono for monospace and terminal use, and stay with the default Sans (which is Deja Vu Sans) for documents. I also like Opens Sans and Noto Sans. On Gnome, I stay with the defaults, and find Cantarell Bold displays better than most other bolded fonts I've used

for browsers which do U use?

[buzzingrobot]

for browsers which do U use?

I use Firefox. I change the default of serif to sans, but do not overide a site's font specification in its CSS.

[thevypr]

I used tewi-font for a simple, small, clean font when I was on Arch.

[oldos2er]

I like Terminus font for the terminal, and Ubuntu fonts for other things.

sudo apt-get install ttf-ubuntu-font-family xfonts-terminus