Translations:Fontconfig/72/en
From Gentoo Wiki
| Font family | Pros | Cons |
|---|---|---|
| Liberation media-fonts/liberation-fonts |
Red Hat's fonts, which are metric-compatible with MS TrueType corefonts, have a decent, modern look. This is the Gentoo Fonts team recommendation for default Latin fonts. Covers about 2,600 code points. | Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and Hebrew only. A few glyphs may have hinting trouble. |
| Linux Libertine media-fonts/libertine |
Very similar to Liberation, covering about 2,700 code points. Linux Libertine itself is proportional serif only, but the package contains less extensive sans and mono fonts, as well. Can be used as a fallback for some glyphs not in Liberation. | Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and Hebrew only. Sans and mono fonts are limited. |
| Noto media-fonts/noto |
Google's font family that aims to support all the world's languages (so, well over 60,000 code points). It goes well with Liberation or Droid. Adobe's Source Han Sans fonts are included for CJK. Recommended as a fallback for many glyphs not covered by Liberation. | Big download. |
| DejaVu media-fonts/dejavu |
Many styles and covers a lot of code points (about 6,100 for sans). | Exceptionally wide — even condensed is wider than same-height monospace. Overall second to Verdana (an MS font) in width. Sans-serif font is only average. |
| Droid media-fonts/droid |
Covers a lot of code points and scripts. | Very dry, wide yet thin glyphs. Clearly designed with handheld devices and their small screens in mind. |
| Gentium Plus media-fonts/sil-gentium |
Fairly distinctive; might appeal to people who like narrow fonts. | Serif only. As with other SIL fonts, the hinting is questionable. |
| Ubuntu media-fonts/ubuntu-font-family |
Used in Ubuntu (obviously). A distinctive font family with a style which might not appeal to everyone. Overall looks good and covers a fair number of code points. | Only the sans-serif font is truly polished; narrow and monospaced versions are unfinished. No known serif font that would accompany it well. |
| URW media-fonts/urw-fonts |
Metric compatible with popular Adobe fonts (among others?). | Seem to require slight hinting. |
| MS TrueType corefonts media-fonts/corefonts |
Includes most fonts used in documents and on the web. | MS does not distribute them nowadays, so the available fonts are from many years ago and do not reflect their current state (not to mention the state of the art). Obviously, lacks fonts introduced more recently. Require full hinting. |
| Unifont media-fonts/unifont |
Covers a lot of code points. | In addition to being ugly as sin, it also fails some basic requirements to be considered a typeface. Is it sans-serif? Is it serif? Please never use this. |