Movable Type Fonts and Ubuntu
The title font used on lornajane.net is League Gothic and using it caused me to learn about The League of Moveable Type. Not only do I agree with their principles, they have some really beautiful fonts available into the bargain!
As an Ubuntu user, installing fonts couldn’t be easier and predictably there were some great instructions when I actually looked for them. In a nutshell, download the font and double click it (the .otf file). You’ll see this:
See the install button on the bottom right? That’s all there is to it! You’ll need to restart your applications for them to pick it up, but your font is installed.
Favourite Fonts
And while you’re at it, why not checkout my current favourite font, inconsolata, a very nice fixed-width font with a very nice license to match. What’s your favourite open licensed font? Do share, I love having a better selection both for the web and on my laptop!
Envy Code R (http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Envy-Code-R) looks very good for GUIs and CLIs. I’ve using it since ~1 year for terminal and coding. Looks pretty neat at web too.
My new machine has LXDE, therefore no font viewer. All I had to do instead was copy the .otf file into /usr/share/fonts/OTF/