As a user of OpenSolaris you may be wondering why it’s missing all the popular fonts such as Arial, Times New Roman and the ever popular Wingdings. The license for these fonts prohibit their distribution with the operating system, however, they are freely available to you in the extra repository.

If you haven’t yet set up the extra repository, take a moment and do so because it has other goodies like Flash, VirtualBox and the JavaFX SDK.

Once you have the extra repository added, the additional fonts are in the ttf-fonts-core package:

bleonard@opensolaris:~$ pkg info -r ttf-fonts-core
          Name: system/font/truetype/ttf-fonts-core
       Summary: Core desktop and document TrueType fonts
      Category: System/Fonts
         State: Not installed
     Publisher: extra
       Version: 1.0
 Build Release: 5.11
        Branch: 0.111
Packaging Date: Fri Apr  3 19:46:26 2009
          Size: 16.10 MB
          FMRI: pkg://extra/system/font/truetype/ttf-fonts-core@1.0,5.11-0.111:20090403T194626Z

The list of fonts includes:

To install them:

bleonard@opensolaris:~$ pfexec pkg install ttf-fonts-core
DOWNLOAD                                    PKGS       FILES     XFER (MB)
Completed                                    1/1       84/84     9.49/9.49 

PHASE                                        ACTIONS
Install Phase                                  98/98
PHASE                                          ITEMS
Reading Existing Index                           8/8
Indexing Packages                                1/1

Then use them:

Source/Kaynak : http://blogs.sun.com/observatory/entry/truetype_fonts