The msttcorefonts contain the following fonts:

• 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

These can be installed with running sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts .

I found a good post how to get the Lucida Grande font but than I was forced to install wine and safari applications. If you own a Windows installation and than you can copy the fonts from your C:\Windows\Fonts directory and place them /usr/share/fonts/ttf and that’s what I did.

Don’t forget to get them configured. Run sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig. After restarting Firefox my blog was pretty much as on Windows.

Font is OK now, but still some things with spacing. Anyway this is how I quickly got my Windows fonts on Ubuntu Desktop 8.04 desktop machine.

Some links for Linux and Fonts

http://packages.debian.org/stable/x11/msttcorefonts

http://www.convexhull.com/mandrake_fonts.html

http://avi.alkalay.net/linux/docs/font-howto/Font.html