Fonts in Xwindows-Xorg

I tried many times to get my fonts to look right on Debian. When I was succeeding in doing so, I wasn't making a backup so I thought I might write them down somewhere, so I could have them when I need them.

To see some fonts in action:

• http://ch2.fontz.ch/

• http://www.fontfreak.com/fonts-no.htm

• http://www.typenow.net/numbers.htm

While reading http://www.faqs.org/faqs/fonts-faq/part4/
I extracted the essential parts, that I need to remember, like:
Times is a proportional font, not very good for my monitor or hard reading, since it's quite old and has the Serifs.
Helvetica on the other side, it's a Sans-Serif that I'm currently using in my gvim.

The best sans-serif fonts on Linux is the bitstream-vera family which you can install like :

apt-get install ttf-bitstream-vera - The Bitstream Vera family of free TrueType fonts

Optima fonts are also mentioned in the above article, but I couldn't find them with apt-cache.

Next in line is the well known Courier. Mostly used on coding purpose since it's a monospace font. They look good while viewing emails too, so I use them in mozilla :).

Sans Serif (a.k.a. Gothic or Grotesque)

 Sans serif letters have no serifs, as the name suggests. The low
contrast and absence of serifs makes most sans typefaces harder to
follow for general reading. They are fine for a sentence, passable for
a paragraph, but are difficult to use well in, say, the text of a book.
The terminology of sans serif types can be confusing: essentially,
gothic or grotesque are both generic names for sans serif (although
Letter Gothic, confusingly, is more of a slab serif type).

Nice collection of fonts:

apt-get install ttf-dustin Verry well rendered at low sizes. http://dustismo.com/

To install windows fonts, I follow the steps:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts
xloadimage - Graphics file viewer under X11 ttf-alee ttf-farsiweb xfonts-terminus
apt-get install cabextract
apt-get install ttmkfdir ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-kochi-mincho ttf-thryomanes \
ttf-baekmuk ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp ttf-arphic-gkai00mp \
ttf-arphic-bkai00mp mozilla-firefox-gnome-support latex-xft-fonts xprint

apt-get install xfonts-100dpi xfonts-100dpi-transcoded xfonts-75dpi \
xfonts-75dpi-transcoded xfonts-base xfonts-base-transcoded

• http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/FDU/truetype.html
  

• http://www.paulandlesley.org/linux/xfree4_tt.html

• http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/msttcorefonts