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==Font Packages==
==Font Packages==
* fonts-adobe-sourcesane: Adobe Source Sans Pro
This does not attempt to be a complete nor authoritative list. The ultimate record is always the actual SprezzOS repository.
{|class="wikitable" border="1"
! Package
! Font(s)
! Creator(s)
! Homepage
! Description
! Google Web Font?
|-
| fonts-adobe-sourcesanspro
| Source Sans Pro
| Adobe
| http://sourceforge.net/projects/sourcesans.adobe/
| "Source Sans is a set of OpenType fonts that have been designed to work well in user interface (UI) environments, as well as in text setting for screen and print."
| Y
|-
| fonts-awesome
| Awesome
| Dave Gandy
| http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/
| "The iconic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap."
| N
|-
| fonts-cantarell
| Cantarell
| Dave Crossland
| http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Cantarell
| "The typeface is designed as a contemporary Humanist sans serif, and was developed for on-screen reading; in particular, reading web pages on an HTC Dream mobile phone."
| Y
|-
| fonts-freefont-otf,
fonts-freefont-ttf
| FreeMono, FreeSans,
FreeSerif
| URW++ Ghostscript,
others
| "Besides a full set of characters for writing systems based on the Latin alphabet, FreeFont contains large selection of characters from other writing systems, some of which are hard to find elsewhere."
| N
|-
| fonts-inconsolata
| Inconsolata
| Raph Levien
| http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Inconsolata
| "It is a monospace font, designed for printed code listings and the like."
| Y (Superseded)
|-
| fonts-junicode
| Junicode
| Peter Baker
| http://junicode.sourceforge.net/
| "Junicode contains many special characters and ligatures for medievalists, along with numerous other Unicode glyphs. The font has OpenType features for advanced typesetting and includes true small caps.."
| N
|-
| fonts-liberation
| Liberation Sans
| Steve Matteson (Ascender Corp),
Oracle
| https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/
| "Liberation™ Fonts is a font family which aims at metric compatibility with Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New."
| N (see "Arimo")
|-
|}


==See Also==
==See Also==
* [[Graphics]]
* [[Graphics]] in the [[:Category: SprezzOS Manual|SprezzOS Manual]]
* [http://www.rastertragedy.com/ The Raster Tragedy] by Beat Stamm
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wpzgGMqXgit6FBVaO76epnnFC_rQPdVKswrDQWyqO1M High-DPI, Subpixel Text Positioning and Hinting] by Behdad Esfahbod
* [http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/a-web-designers-guide-to-linux-fonts/ A Web Designer's Guide to Linux Fonts] by Michael Tuck
* [http://www.antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/ Texts Rasterization Exposures] by  Maxim Shemanarev


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Latest revision as of 20:46, 5 February 2013

Fonts in both the installer and X environments are controlled through fontconfig and libfreetype.

Font Packages

This does not attempt to be a complete nor authoritative list. The ultimate record is always the actual SprezzOS repository.

Package Font(s) Creator(s) Homepage Description Google Web Font?
fonts-adobe-sourcesanspro Source Sans Pro Adobe http://sourceforge.net/projects/sourcesans.adobe/ "Source Sans is a set of OpenType fonts that have been designed to work well in user interface (UI) environments, as well as in text setting for screen and print." Y
fonts-awesome Awesome Dave Gandy http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/ "The iconic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap." N
fonts-cantarell Cantarell Dave Crossland http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Cantarell "The typeface is designed as a contemporary Humanist sans serif, and was developed for on-screen reading; in particular, reading web pages on an HTC Dream mobile phone." Y
fonts-freefont-otf,

fonts-freefont-ttf

FreeMono, FreeSans,

FreeSerif

URW++ Ghostscript,

others

"Besides a full set of characters for writing systems based on the Latin alphabet, FreeFont contains large selection of characters from other writing systems, some of which are hard to find elsewhere." N
fonts-inconsolata Inconsolata Raph Levien http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Inconsolata "It is a monospace font, designed for printed code listings and the like." Y (Superseded)
fonts-junicode Junicode Peter Baker http://junicode.sourceforge.net/ "Junicode contains many special characters and ligatures for medievalists, along with numerous other Unicode glyphs. The font has OpenType features for advanced typesetting and includes true small caps.." N
fonts-liberation Liberation Sans Steve Matteson (Ascender Corp),

Oracle

https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/ "Liberation™ Fonts is a font family which aims at metric compatibility with Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New." N (see "Arimo")

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