If you develop websites on Ubuntu, you may have noticed the horrible fonts it uses.  You want Times New Roman?  It gives you some quasi Courier-New mutant.  Microsoft’s Truetype fonts, though free, are not open source, so Ubuntu cannot offer them as part of its default package.

You can, however, install them yourself.

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

That’s it!  Reboot your browser and you will now see fonts (at least the common ones) the way the rest of the world does.