UK TeX FAQ -- question label findfont

### Finding new fonts

A comprehensive list of Metafont fonts used to be posted to comp.fonts and to comp.text.tex, roughly every six weeks, by Lee Quin. Nowadays, authors of new material in Metafont are few and far between (and mostly designing highly specialised things with limited appeal to ordinary users); as a result, no-one has taken over maintenance of the list of fonts. If you need a font for some esoteric purpose, it may be worth searching CTAN using your purpose as a search keyword.

Most new fonts that appear are prepared in some scalable outline form or other, and a large proportion is distributed under commercial terms. However, once you have acquired such a font, converting it to a form usable by your (La)TeX distribution is not (in principle) a serious problem.

The answer “choice of scalable fonts” discusses fonts that are configured for general (both textual and mathematical) use with (La)TeX. The list of such fonts is sufficiently short that they can all be discussed in one answer here.

`Metafont font list`
  info/metafont-list

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