Fonts

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-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	Y (Superseded)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

• 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