Exploring free and open web fonts (opensource.com)

Nathan Willis looksbeyond open web fonts on opensource.com. "For starters, it's critical to understand that Google Fonts and Open Font Library offer a specialized service-delivering fonts in web pages-and they don't implement solutions for other use cases. That is not a shortcoming on the services' side; it simply means that we have to develop other solutions.There are a number of problems to solve. Probably the most obvious example is the awkwardness of installing fonts on a desktop Linux machine for use in other applications. You can download any of the web fonts offered by either service, but all you will get is a generic ZIP file with some TTF or OTF binaries inside and a plaintext license file. What happens next is up to you to guess."