Font.

Show list of avaliable font under X.

To view list of clint-side fonts:

$ fc-list

To view list of monospaced clint-side fonts:

$ fc-list :spacing=mono

To view list of server-side fonts:

$ xlsfonts

To view list of server-side monospaced fonts:

$ xlsfonts -fn '*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-m*'
$ xlsfonts -fn '*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-c*'

GUI font managers (lack support for bitmap fonts):

$ sudo apt-get install fontypython
$ fontypython &

$ sudo apt-get install font-manager
$ font-manager &

View how fonts looks like under X

$ xfontsel &
$ gucharmap &
$ xfd -fa "DejaVu Sans Mono"

Inspect font properties

View general font info:

$ fc-query  $FONT.ttf

View font tables:

$ sudo apt-get install fonttools
$ ttx -l  $FONT.ttf

Dump font tables in XML formtat (check out .ttx file):

$ ttx $FONT.ttf

Configure fonts under X.

Read man 5 font-config.

http://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html

Man page about font.conf.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html

FreeBSD manual about font.conf.

http://wiki.debian.org/Fonts/

Debian wiki.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_logical_font_description

X logical font description.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/font_configuration

Font configuration.

Setup font for emacs.

If X running by xinit, write to ~/.xinitrc:

xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults &

and write to ~/.Xdefaults:

emacs.font: 7x13

Setup font for mc.

Not any font display correctly cyrillic characters - only those which with ISO 10646. If you in X run MC as:

$ xterm -fn "-misc-fixed-medium-r-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1" -geometry 120x42 -e mc -x

Safe fonts for the WEB.

Check font spreading statistics and usage:

• http://www.awayback.com/revised-font-stack/
• http://www.cssfontstack.com/

Fonts family.

See

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software_Unicode_typefaces

Free typefaces at Wikipedia.

http://www.openfontlibrary.org

Open Font Library, a library of free fonts

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=FontsInCyberspace&_sc=1

SIL fonts.

$ sudo apt-get install ttf-dejavu

$ sudo apt-get install ttf-sil-doulos
$ sudo apt-get install ttf-sil-charis
$ sudo apt-get install ttf-gentium

How configure font for X?

For Debian:

$ sudo aptitude install fontconfig-config
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config

Font tuning method for screen: Native Enable subpixel rendering for screen: Always (или Automatic) Enable bitmapped fonts by default?: No

Font development.

Best font for reading.