A collection of OFL-licensed fonts modified to be metric-compatible with ones common in Microsoft Word documents. The typefaces below are useful in situations where the equivalent fonts cannot be used for licensing reasons, e.g. when generating PDFs server-side.
These stand-ins are not perfect — in some cases the fonts don't cover the full character set of the ones they aim to replace, and a few of the characters look a little wonky, but they're good enough for most Latin text.
Arimo, an Arial stand-in
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. Hamburgefonstiv. How quickly daft jumping zebras vex!
A few of Arimo's characters were altered to line up slightly better with Arial, e.g. the lowercase a.
Fauxdana, a Verdana stand-in
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. Hamburgefonstiv. How quickly daft jumping zebras vex!