Adding fonts in Ubuntu

The fonts that Ubuntu ships with are ok, but limited. It is a good idea, to use the package manager to install msttcorefonts, which makes sure you have the most common fonts, including these:

• Andale Mono
• Arial Black
• Arial (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
• Comic Sans MS (Bold)
• Courier New (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
• Georgia (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
• Impact
• Times New Roman (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
• Trebuchet (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
• Verdana (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
• Webdings

Warren Guy has some detailed instructions on what else you might consider doing, and so too does the Ubuntu Blog.

Using something like the Synaptic package manager, you can find an impressive number of new fonts. But you can also manually add true type fonts. .... (I'm not finished with this reminder yet)

sudo fc-cache -f -v