What font packages are installed in TeX live?

Question

What font packages are installed in a full installation of TeX live? Which are obsolete? Example: \usepackage{mathpazo} brings Palatino as the roman font. The times package seems to be obsolete (as noted in l2tabuen). I only ask for "easy to use" packages to be used with \usepackage{...}.

Answer 1

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Fonts accessible with a simple \usepackage{〈font〉} call:

(*) means that the package makes this font the default text font.

• arev - Arev, a sans-serif font (*) with math enhancements; derived from Bitstream Vera Sans
• avant - Sets the sans-serif font to Avant Garde
• bera - Bera Serif (roman,*), Bera Sans (sans-serif), Bera Mono (typewriter); derived from Bitstream Vera; math font: Computer Modern
• bookman - roman font: Bookman (*), sans-serif font: Avant Garde, typewriter font: Courier
• cabin - Sets the sans-serif font to Cabin
• chancery - roman font: Chancery (*)
• charter - roman font: Charter (*)
• cmbright - CM Bright, lighter sans-serif variant of Computer Modern Sans Serif (sans-serif, *), CM Typwewriter Light (typewriter)
• concrete - Concrete Roman (roman,*) with Euler (math)
• courier - typewriter font: Courier
• dejavu - DejaVu Serif (roman,*), DejaVu Sans (sans-serif), DejaVu Sans Mono (typewriter); derived from Bitstream Vera
• droid - Droid Serif (roman,*), Droid Sans (sans-serif), Droid Sans Mono(typewriter)
• ebgaramond - roman font: EB Garamond (*)
• euler - Math font
• fourier - Sets the serif font to Adobe Utopia (*) and the math font to Fourier (designed to be compatible with Utopia)
• fouriernc Sets the serif font to (a clone of) NewCentury Schoolbook (*) and the math font to Fouriernc (designed to be compatible with NewCentury)
• helvet - Helvetica
• inconsolata - set typewriter font to inconsolata
• kpfonts - roman (*), sans-serif and typewriter font from the Kepler Project, text and math symbols
• lato - sans-serif font
• libertineotf (obsolete) - (Open Type) Linux Libertine (roman,*), Linux Biolinum (sans-serif), and Libertine Mono (typewriter)
• libertine - (Type 1 & Open Type) Linux Libertine (roman,*) and Linux Biolinum (sans-serif), and Libertine Mono (typewriter)
• librebaskerville - roman font: Libre Baskerville (*)
• lmodern - almost identical fonts to Computer Modern (the default TeX fonts), but in Type1 format (outline).
• mathdesign - text and maths fonts, versions for Charter, Garamond and Utopia.
• mathpazo - changes roman font to Palatino (*), math to something matching.
• mathptmx - roman font is Times (*), math is basically Times Italic, with the missing math symbols coming from Computer Modern, RSFS (for \mathcal) and Adobe Symbol
• newcent - roman font: New Century Schoolbook (*), sans-serif: Avant Garde, typewriter: Courier
• newtx Provides, with the package newtxtext Young Ryu's TXfonts, but with modified metrics (*=Times Roman). Similarly, newtxmath provides the TXfonts math companion fonts with modified metrics. The sans-serif font is based on Helvetica and the typewriter font is especially created.
• quattrocento - Quattrocento (roman,*), Quattrocento Sans (sans-serif)
• tgadventor Sets the sans-serif font to TeX Gyre Adventor (clone of AvantGarde)
• tgbonum Sets the serif font to TeX Gyre Bonum (clone of Bookman,*)
• tgchorus Sets the serif font to TeX Gyre Chorus (clone of Zapf Chancery,*)
• tgcursor Sets the typewriter type font to TeX Gyre Cursor (clone of Courier)
• tgheros Sets the sans-serif font to TeX Gyre Heros (clone of Helvetica)
• tgpagella Sets the serif font to TeX Gyre Pagella (clone of Palatino,*)
• tgschola Sets the serif font to TeX Gyre Schola (clone of New Century Schoolbook,*)
• tgtermes Sets the serif font to TeX Gyre Termes (clone of Times,*)
• times (obsolete) - changes roman to Times (*), sans-serif to Helvetica and typewriter to Courier
• yfonts - provides Yiannis Haralambous's rendering of Fraktur, Schwabacher and Gotische and a set of beautiful initials.

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Fonts not accessible with a simple \usepackage{〈font〉} call:

• Computer Modern - Knuth's original fonts, still "embedded" in Knuth's plain format
• frutiger - a sans-serif typeface with the rationality and cleanliness of Univers, but with the organic and proportional aspects of Gill Sans (Wikipedia), extra installation steps required
• gentium - SIL gentium multilingual text font (TrueType)
• luximono - a family of general-purpose monospaced fonts, extra installation steps required