Lots of fonts are available for LaTeX here

1. Example: install the emerald package

wget http://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/emerald.zip
unzip emarald.zip

ln -s ~/Libary/texmf .texmf # because I am on mac

cp -fr emeral/tex/latex/emarald/ ~/.texmf/
cp -fr emeral/fonts ~/.texmf/

cd ~/.texmf
texhash .

cd ~/.texmf/fonts/map/dvips/emerald.map
updmap updmap --enable Map emerald.map

2. emerald-test.tex

\documentclass[11pt]{article}

\usepackage{emerald}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\title{Emerald testing}
\author{Luc Fabresse}
\date{}

\setlength{\parskip}{2ex}

\newcommand{\showFontaux}{normalfont}
\newcommand{\showFont}[1]{%
	\renewcommand{\showFontaux}{#1}%
	\csname \showFontaux \endcsname%
	\marginpar{\vspace*{0.6cm}\small\csname \showFontaux \endcsname #1}%
	\lipsum[2]%
	\normalfont
}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

We are going to try a series of standard Laserwriter fonts.

\showFont{ECFAugie}
\showFont{ECFJD}
\showFont{ECFAPictureAlphabet}
% \showFont{ECFDecadence}
% \showFont{ECFDecadenceWithoutTheDiamonds}
% \showFont{ECFDecadenceCondensed}
% \showFont{ECFDecadenceInTheDark}
% \showFont{ECFDecadenceInTheDarkCondensed}
% \showFont{ECFDecadenceInADifferentLight}
% \showFont{ECFDecadenceInTheDarkCondensedMarquee}
\showFont{ECFIntimacy}
\showFont{ECFIntimacyDeux}
\showFont{ECFMovieola}
\showFont{ECFMovieolaTitleType}
\showFont{ECFPookie}
\showFont{ECFPookieType}
\showFont{ECFSkeetch}
\showFont{ECFSpankysBungalow}
\showFont{ECFSpankysBungalowItalico}
\showFont{ECFSpankysBungalowBlanco}
\showFont{ECFSpankysBungalowBlancoItalico}
% \showFont{ECFSyriac}
\showFont{ECFTallPaul}
\showFont{ECFTeenSpirit}
\showFont{ECFWebster}

\end{document}

3. Compile and see

pdflatex emerald-test.tex

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