4.2. Webcore Fonts
The official distribution of these fonts for Linux include tarballs and RPMs for several distributions.
Also known as the Microsoft fonts, these are the best fonts available to be used on the screen. Very well hinted for small sizes makes them perfect for desktop widgets, fluent text, etc.
They are Verdana , Tahoma , Times New Roman , Arial , Trebuchet , Comic Sans , Impact and others. Here is a screen shot of them:
Figure 12. The Webcore Fonts
As we said before, Tahoma and Verdana were designed for the screen, but they are getting overused for many other purposes.
Our objective here is to provide links where you can get good quality RPM s, debs, etc for your distribution. These packages are provided by independent contributors, so if you have the skills to build them for your distribution, please contact us and send the URL for your packages. WE WILL ACCEPT CONTRIBUTIONS.
Packages for distributions:
Red Hat and Fedora RPMs . This is the orignal package, and it is reported to work in many other distributions.
Mandrake signed RPMs by Borgnet (Scott Grayban) .
Please send us more, such as Slackware and Debian packages.
After installing this font package you'll also note a better rendering of web pages, because professional web designers use to use them for their pages.
Some people say these fonts are free only for who have a Microsoft Windows license.
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