DJ,

There are some better choices for fonts than the one you mentioned. In
fact, some can be replaced by superior fonts. First, let's list the
fonts that can be replaced:

 * MS Core Fonts - not free (as in freedom) because of the license,
but they came from Microsoft, so what do you expect? Instead, we
should use the Liberation font family, which are replacements for the
three most commonly used fonts in the Core Fonts collection; Arial,
Times New Roman and Courier New. If you desire, you can keep the link
to the Core Fonts, just say that they are not free as in freedom.
 * Arphic and Firefly - both can be replaced by the Ukai and Uming
fonts from Debian. They are enhanced versions of the Arphic Bkai and
Bming fonts, and in fact, one of these fonts contains the Firefly
gliphs. They can be found on Debian mirror sites (their names are
ttf-arphic-ukai and ttf-arphic-uming)
 * Kochi - can be replaced by newer Sazanami fonts, also from the same
maker (efont). They are newer and don't depend on propitiatory bits,
making these fonts free as in freedom.
 * Bakmuk (sic) - can be replaced by the Un fonts, which are just
generally better than the Bakmuk fonts (or what it's supposed to be
spelled like, I don't care.)

And as for URLs:

Liberation: https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/
Ukai and Uming:
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/ttf-arphic-{ukai,uming}/
(replace ftp.us.debian.org with your favorite Debian mirror)
Sazanami: http://sourceforge.jp/projects/efont/files/?release_id=10087#10087
Unfonts: http://kldp.net/projects/unfonts/

I hope this will help.

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