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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label findfont</title>
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<h3>Finding new fonts</h3>
<p/>A comprehensive list of Metafont fonts used to be posted to
<i>comp.fonts</i> and to <i>comp.text.tex</i>, roughly
every six weeks, by Lee Quin.
Nowadays, authors of new material in Metafont are few and far between
(and mostly designing highly specialised things with limited appeal to
ordinary users); as a result, no-one has taken over maintenance of the
list of fonts. If you need a font for some esoteric purpose, it may
be worth <a href="FAQ-findfiles.html">searching CTAN</a> using your purpose
as a search keyword.
<p/>Most new fonts that appear are prepared in some scalable outline form
or other, and a large proportion is distributed under commercial
terms. However, once you have acquired such a font, converting it to
a form usable by your (La)TeX distribution is not (in principle) a
serious problem.
<p/>The answer “<a href="FAQ-psfchoice.html">choice of scalable fonts</a>” discusses
fonts that are configured for general (both textual and mathematical)
use with (La)TeX. The list of such fonts is sufficiently short that
they <em>can</em> all be discussed in one answer here.
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<dt><tt><i>Metafont font list</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/metafont-list">info/metafont-list</a>
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<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=findfont">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=findfont</a>
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