Fonts inclusion history

The following table attempts to trace font package inclusion history in Fedora and its predecesors (Fedora Core, Fedora Extras, Fedora.us). Package availability is mostly listed at release time, except when the rolling nature of the repository (Fedora Extras, Fedora.us) made this check difficult.

Fonts packages timeline

Release	Packages added	Packages dropped	Main events
F10 (as of 2008-07-21)	andika-fonts asana-math-fonts brettfont-fonts ecolier-court-fonts gfs-ambrosia-fonts gfs-eustace-fonts gfs-fleischman-fonts gfs-jackson-fonts gfs-nicefore-fonts icelandic-fonts japanese-bitmap-fonts (renamed from fonts-japanese) khmeros-fonts-base khmeros-fonts-battambang khmeros-fonts-bokor khmeros-fonts-handwritten khmeros-fonts-metalchrieng khmeros-fonts-muol khmeros-fonts-siemreap padauk-fonts roadstencil-fonts	fonts-bengali fonts-chinese fonts-gujarati fonts-hindi fonts-kannada fonts-korean fonts-malayalam fonts-oriya fonts-punjabi fonts-sinhala fonts-tamil fonts-telugu	fonts-script packages are removed. Their content has been migrated to other packages in previous releases, and the compatibility meta-packages are finally dropped.
F9	edrip-fonts gfs-artemisia-fonts gfs-baskerville-fonts gfs-bodoni-classic-fonts gfs-bodoni-fonts gfs-complutum-fonts gfs-didot-classic-fonts gfs-didot-fonts gfs-gazis-fonts gfs-neohellenic-fonts gfs-olga-fonts gfs-porson-fonts gfs-solomos-fonts gfs-theokritos-fonts inconsolata-fonts samyak-fonts-devanagari samyak-fonts-gujarati samyak-fonts-malayalam samyak-fonts-oriya samyak-fonts-tamil sarai-fonts silkscreen-fonts smc-fonts-dyuthi smc-fonts-meera smc-fonts-rachana smc-fonts-raghumalayalam smc-fonts-suruma stix-fonts stix-fonts-integrals stix-fonts-pua stix-fonts-sizes stix-fonts-variants thaifonts-scalable tiresias-fonts VLGothic-fonts-proportional wqy-zenhei-fonts yanone-kaffeesatz-fonts	hunky-fonts xorg-x11-fonts-syriac xorg-x11-fonts-truetype (Luxi)	Licensing audit causes some non-modifiable xorg fonts to be removed. The full version of DejaVu is now the distribution main font set.
F8	abyssinica-fonts baekmuk-bdf-fonts baekmuk-ttf-fonts-batang baekmuk-ttf-fonts-common baekmuk-ttf-fonts-dotum baekmuk-ttf-fonts-gulim baekmuk-ttf-fonts-hline cjkunifonts-ukai cjkunifonts-uming culmus-fonts jisksp16-1990-fonts kacst-fonts knm_new-fonts lklug-fonts lohit-fonts-bengali lohit-fonts-gujarati lohit-fonts-hindi lohit-fonts-kannada lohit-fonts-malayalam lohit-fonts-oriya lohit-fonts-punjabi lohit-fonts-tamil lohit-fonts-telugu madan-fonts nafees-web-naskh-fonts paktype-fonts sazanami-fonts-gothic sazanami-fonts-mincho taipeifonts wqy-bitmap-fonts wqy-unibit-fonts	xorg-x11-fonts-base	In Fedora 8 fonts for all available languages are now installed by default on the desktop to give good default language coverage. Most of the fonts in generically named font packages have been moved to their own packages (Baekmuk, Lohit…) to reflect the upstream name and make font choices easier. The large and necessary F8 package churn thus does not correspond to the inclusion of many new fonts. Fonts SIG SIG creation late in the Fedora 8 cycle, with the aim to accelerate Fedora fonts inclusion.
F7		wqy-bitmap-fonts wqy-unibit-fonts wqy-zenhei-fonts	First Core+Extras merged release.
FC6, FE6	dejavu-lgc-fonts fonts-kannada fonts-malayalam fonts-oriya fonts-sinhala fonts-telugu liberation-fonts wqy-unibit-fonts wqy-zenhei-fonts	dejavu-fonts-block dejavu-fonts-makedefault	DejaVu LGC is added to Fedora Core and made the default. The DejaVu (full) package in Fedora Extras is simplified to just take over if it's installed. Liberation is added to Fedora.
FC5, FE5	dejavu-fonts-block dejavu-fonts-experimental dejavu-fonts-makedefault efont-unicode-bdf freefont jomolhari-fonts linux-libertine-fonts terminus-font-console terminus-font-x11 tibetan-machine-uni-fonts VLGothic-fonts wqy-bitmap-fonts xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi xorg-x11-fonts-base xorg-x11-fonts-cyrillic xorg-x11-fonts-ethiopic xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-14-100dpi xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-14-75dpi xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-15-100dpi xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-15-75dpi xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-2-100dpi xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-2-75dpi xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-9-100dpi xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-9-75dpi xorg-x11-fonts-misc xorg-x11-fonts-syriac xorg-x11-fonts-truetype xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 zvbi-fonts	fonts-xorg-100dpi fonts-xorg-75dpi fonts-xorg-base fonts-xorg-cyrillic fonts-xorg-ISO8859-14-100dpi fonts-xorg-ISO8859-14-75dpi fonts-xorg-ISO8859-15-100dpi fonts-xorg-ISO8859-15-75dpi fonts-xorg-ISO8859-2-100dpi fonts-xorg-ISO8859-2-75dpi fonts-xorg-ISO8859-9-100dpi fonts-xorg-ISO8859-9-75dpi fonts-xorg-syriac fonts-xorg-truetype taipeifonts	xorg is now modular. Xorg font packages are renamed. Linux Libertine and FreeFont are merged.
FC4, FE4	charis-fonts dejavu-fonts-experimental doulos-fonts fonts-chinese fonts-gujarati fonts-hindi fonts-japanese fonts-korean fonts-punjabi fonts-tamil fonts-truetype-apl fonts-x11-apl gentium-fonts hunky-fonts	fonts-ja ttfonts-bn ttfonts-gu ttfonts-hi ttfonts-ja ttfonts-ko ttfonts-pa ttfonts-ta ttfonts-zh_CN ttfonts-zh_TW	Doulos, Charis and Gentium are merged. The mass font package renaming continues.
FC3, FE3	fonts-xorg-100dpi fonts-xorg-75dpi fonts-xorg-base fonts-xorg-cyrillic fonts-xorg-ISO8859-14-100dpi fonts-xorg-ISO8859-14-75dpi fonts-xorg-ISO8859-15-100dpi fonts-xorg-ISO8859-15-75dpi fonts-xorg-ISO8859-2-100dpi fonts-xorg-ISO8859-2-75dpi fonts-xorg-ISO8859-9-100dpi fonts-xorg-ISO8859-9-75dpi fonts-xorg-syriac fonts-xorg-truetype ttfonts-bn ttfonts-gu ttfonts-hi ttfonts-pa ttfonts-ta	xorg-x11-100dpi-fonts xorg-x11-75dpi-fonts xorg-x11-base-fonts xorg-x11-cyrillic-fonts xorg-x11-ISO8859-14-100dpi-fonts xorg-x11-ISO8859-14-75dpi-fonts xorg-x11-ISO8859-15-100dpi-fonts xorg-x11-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts xorg-x11-ISO8859-2-100dpi-fonts xorg-x11-ISO8859-2-75dpi-fonts xorg-x11-ISO8859-9-100dpi-fonts xorg-x11-ISO8859-9-75dpi-fonts xorg-x11-syriac-fonts xorg-x11-truetype-fonts	Attempt to clean up and consolidate Fedora Core font package naming. Since the rules chosen were different from those of Fedora Extras, more mass renaming would quickly follow.

Fonts in Fedora
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