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Another Larabie Font (This guy makes lot’s of fonts). With a “Neo Art Deco” style, this light action font is ideal for print and screen display. Download here. Have a look at the attached pdf for a better view.

Yet another Larabie Font. This one looks kind-of 70’s to me. As always, for a better look, see the attached pdf or download the font here.

This is another Larabie Font with a retro video game feel. See the attached pdf for a better look  and then download the Abberancy font, if you like.

Free font-matching service Identifont is a good bookmark for anyone who works in words, design, or just has to occasionally match up hard-to-pin-down fonts. While not as automatic as the previously...

The Swathanthra Malayalam Computing(SMC) has come up with a list of Malayalam unicode fonts which are available under GPL. The web page also has a preview and a link to download the font.

Windows only: Hawkeye Font Browser, a free Windows utility, makes it simple to see how a word or sentence looks in any of your system's installed TrueType fonts. In other words, it's one of those...

The default prompt in Windows' Command Prompt isn't the easiest to read, but Microsoft has a font, Consolas, that works much better in a terminal, as attested to by our commenters. The Digital...

For certain projects, even the gargantuan list of pre-installed fonts on your system just won't do. When you want to create your own font but don't want to learn the archaic process for doing so, you...

Readers of this blog probably take for granted a crucial freedom that open source software makes possible: that of being able to use your own language for computing. If you think this isn't a problem with proprietary software, even for well-known nations, just ask the Icelanders: When Microsoft refused to produce an Icelandic version of Windows '98, on the grounds that the market was too small, Iceland's Ministry of Education and Culture threatened legal action. Microsoft relented. Unbelievably, that was just ten years ago, and although Microsoft has improved since then, it's done so largely because open source has forced it to by showing what can be done. And still free software reaches the (linguistic) parts other software cannot.

Windows only: Free shell extension utility Shell Tools adds a few rare-but-good abilities to your right-click menu, including a means of toggling hidden file showing that's a lot more convenient than...

Check out a few free fonts, as well as fonts you can buy. http://www.bvfonts.com/tou.php It has Mac Truetype and Postscript, Windows Truetype, and Opentype. For Windows, download the Windows font zip file, unzip it, and copy the contents (except the readme file) to your Windows\Fonts directory.  For other OSes, it varies but a google will tell you pretty quickly. Then they'll be available in OpenOffice.org. (FYI, in this shot I'm using OOo on Windows but with Ubuntu icons.)

iMark:I have been upgrading my laptop from openSUSE 10.2 to 10.3. This was done by keeping my home partition and formatting my root partition - no upgrade options for me. First thing I noticed was the fonts - looking horrible. The MS True Type fonts (Arial, Trebuchet, etc) were not yet installed, so quickly to online update and install fetchmsttfonts.sh to do it's trick. No way - it did not work