Trisquel currently includes a few substitutes for famous typefaces, so I
thought I'd contribute a few more:
Aroania is a near-clone of Verdana, with a few subtle differences and
fantastic language support. The only thing Verdana has that this font doesn't
have is italics, but they're not true italics so you'll hardly be missing
anything. Like the many interesting fonts on Douros' site, "Fonts in [sic]
this site are offered free for any use; they may be installed, embedded,
opened, edited, modified, regenerated, posted, packaged and redistributed."
Have you ever heard of FF Meta? Even if you haven't, I'm almost certain
you've seen it, seeing as it's one of the most popular commercial (yes, I do
mean simply "for sale") typefaces of the past two decades. Here's a sample.
However, not only is it commercial, it's proprietary. But for Ben Weiner's
thesis project he produced a remarkably similar typeface, Puritan.
Calibri has become one of my least-favourite typefaces lately because of its
overuse; Microsoft has made it the default font for everything and now it's
seen everywhere because of lazy typographers. (Also, it's proprietary.)
However, Omnibus Type has created a fantastic alternative to it, Asap, with
the nice bonus that all glyphs are exactly the same width in all four styles.
This font is under the OFL as well.
And now, the part of this post that everyone's going to hate: there is,
believe it or not, a libre alternative to Comic Sans. It's even metrically
compatible. Why anyone would need this, I don't know, but it's called Comic
Relief, and released under the OFL. Please direct all vicious outpourings of
rage to designer Jeff Davis and not me.
And one last thing: if you need some shorter names, or more language support,
for your Liberation Sans/Mono/Serif, then you can get the Google Croscore
versions of the fonts (respectively called the much more attractive Arimo,
Cousine, and Tinos) by clicking here. I can't remember where I originally
found these files (it was something like an OpenSUSE package mirror, but I
could be wrong) so this is pretty much an exclusive download. The miracle of
free software — what if I weren't able to share these fonts with you? :)
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