Published October 16th, 2004 by Jim O'Halloran
Linux Font Primer
Nathan Willis has written an excellent article for Newsforge explaining font support in Linux. An excellent introduction to a topic I knew very little about,
As recently as two years ago, the average deployed Linux system had inconsistent font support — some applications were not able to access all the installed fonts on the system, some applications were incapable of anti-aliasing, and a user trying to sort it out quickly became mired in an alphabet soup of confusingly-similar terms: TrueType, OpenType, FreeType, Type 1, et cetera.