The Tuffy Truetype Font Family

fonts-tuffy

The Tuffy Truetype Font Family

Thatcher Ulrich's first outline font design. He started with the goal of producing a neutral, readable sans-serif text font. There are lots of "expressive" fonts out there, but he wanted to start with something very plain and clean, something he might want to actually use.
metapackage to pull in Roboto fonts

fonts-roboto

metapackage to pull in Roboto fonts

Roboto is Google's signature family of fonts, the default font in Android and ChromeOS and the recommended font for Google's visual language, Material Design.
Vera font family derivate with additional characters (extra variants)

fonts-dejavu-extra

Vera font family derivate with additional characters (extra variants)

DejaVu provides an expanded version of the Vera font family aiming for quality and broader Unicode coverage while retaining the original Vera style. DejaVu currently works towards conformance with the Multilingual European Standards (MES-1 and MES-2) for Unicode coverage. The DejaVu fonts provide serif, sans and monospaced variants.
monospaced font based on IBM 3270 terminals

fonts-3270

monospaced font based on IBM 3270 terminals

This font is derived from the x3270 font, which, in turn, was translated from the one in Georgia Tech's 3270tool, which was itself hand-copied from a 3270 terminal.
"No Tofu" monospaced font family with large Unicode coverage

fonts-noto-mono

"No Tofu" monospaced font family with large Unicode coverage

Noto is a collection of font families, each visually harmonized across scripts.
fira code logo only white square

fonts-firacode

Monospaced font with programming ligatures

Fira Code is an extension of the Fira Mono font containing a set of ligatures for common programming multi-character combinations. This is just a font rendering feature: underlying code remains ASCII-compatible. This helps to read and understand code faster. For some frequent sequences like .. or //, the ligatures allow one to correct spacing.