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| http://sourceforge.net/projects/sourcesans.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." | | "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." | ||
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| "The iconic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap." | |||
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| http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Cantarell | | 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." | | "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." | ||
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| https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/ | | https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/ | ||
| "Liberation™ Fonts is a font family which aims at metric compatibility with Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New." | | "Liberation™ Fonts is a font family which aims at metric compatibility with Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New." | ||
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Revision as of 11:19, 3 January 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? |
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| 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-liberation | Liberation Sans | Steve Matteson of Ascender Corporation, 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
- Graphics in the SprezzOS Manual
- The Raster Tragedy by Beat Stamm
- High-DPI, Subpixel Text Positioning and Hinting by Behdad Esfahbod
- A Web Designer's Guide to Linux Fonts by Michael Tuck
- Texts Rasterization Exposures by Maxim Shemanarev
