> The traditional way of [installing the Windows core Web fonts] is through installing ttf-mscorefonts-installer or msttcorefonts. The msttcorefonts package loo

> The traditional way of [installing the Windows core Web fonts] is through installing ttf-mscorefonts-installer or msttcorefonts. The msttcorefonts package looks like some Shenzhen basement knockoff that renders poorly and doesn’t support Unicode. I suspect that these fonts have gone through multiple iterations in every Windows release and that the versions available through the repositories must be from around Windows 95 days. That does seem to be the case. Per Wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web): > The latest font-versions that were available from Microsoft's Core fonts for the Web project were 2.x (e.g. 2.82 for Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New for MS Windows), published in 2000. Later versions (such as version 3 or version 5 with many new characters) were not available from this project. A Microsoft spokesman declared in 2002 that members of the open source community "will have to find different sources for updated fonts." So while Windows and MacOS both have up-to-date versions of these fonts (Windows because Microsoft owns them, and MacOS because Apple licenses them from MS), the best Linux distributors can do is to package the last versions released before the 2002 re-licensing. (Or at least, that's the best they can do without paying Microsoft.)