Ancient Scripts
Some high-quality fonts for ancient scripts, that escape traditional classifications.
A Greek speaker is needed to ask politely the author to do proper releases (versioned archives with license text that does not need an hex tool to be extracted).
Andika
Probably worth packaging even in its current pre-version state, designers can take years before they're satisfied a font can be final.
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Banana Peels
Banana Peels is a decorative/fun sans-serif font.
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Brett
Brett is a handwriting font, it only comes with a Regular variant for Latin glyphs.
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Computer Modern Unicode
OTF conversion of the well-known TEX fonts. Lots of styles, good coverage, distinguished history. Good text print fonts, not so good as screen fonts given current hardware limitations.
- needs checking by legal to make sure licensing is compatible with the converted materials.
- needs work by someone familiar with TEX to adapt the build process to rpmbuild context with the Fedora versions of fontforge and TEX.
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Conakry
N'Ko font by well-known Unicode.org expert & font designer Michael Everson.
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Dark Garden
Dark Garden is a fun/toy font; it only contains English alphabet glyphs as well as glyphs with Polish and German diacritic characters and also some punctuation marks. It is small caps.
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Delphine
Delphine is a handwriting font, it only comes with a Regular variant for Latin glyphs.
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Dustismo
Dustismo is a font with sans serif and serif ('Roman') versions. Its upstream site seems gone but it is still available from third party sites with GPL licensing.
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Epigrafica
Epigrafica is a sans-serif font derived from MgOpen Cosmetica. It is an 'extended and improved' version of MgOpen Cosmetica. The extensions and improvements are not clear to me (MairinDuffy) It has Regular, Bold, Oblique, and Bold Oblique variants.
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Essays 1743
Essays 1743 is a decorative/historical serif font. It includes glyphs for ASCII, Latin-1, Latin Extended A, and some Latin Extended B, with some additional symbols.
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Garogier
Garogier is a serif font.
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Gentium Basic
A Gentium latin-only subset with bold and bold-italic variants.
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Gillius ADF
Gillius ADF is a sans-serif font intended to mimic Gill Sans. It is an 'extended and improved' version of MgOpen Cosmetica. The extensions and improvements are not clear to me (MairinDuffy) It has Regular, Bold, Italic, Bold Italic, Condensed Bold, Condensed Bold Italic, Condensed Italic, Condensed Regular, Demi Bold, and Demi Bold Italic variants.
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Isabella
Isabella is a decorative/historical serif font.
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Legendum
Legendum is a sans serif font.
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Letters Laughing
Letters Laughing is a decorative/LED sans-serif font.
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Old Standard & Old Standard TT
Beautiful Modern (classicist) Latin/Greek/Cyrillic font by Alexey Kryukov.
- Needs to be built from sources with Fedora fontforge.
- Needs two subpackages, one for the OTF version the other for the TTF version.
- Needs the same fontconfig substitution rules as Deja
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Perizia
A new decorative FLOSS font (source available). Needs work with upstream to establish a proper release process.
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Rockets
Rockets is a decorative/toy font.
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Rubbing Font
Rubbing Font is a decorative/distressed sans-serif font.
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Stay Puft
Stay Puft is a decorative/toy font.
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Steve Hand
Steve Hand is a handwriting font, it only comes with a Regular variant for Latin glyphs.
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To Be Continued
To Be Continued is a decorative/graffiti sans-serif font.
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Tuffy
Tuffy is a sans-serif font.
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Tuffy MH3
Tuffy MH3 is a sans-serif font. Tuffy, modified and expanded.
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UN
The UN fonts package is a longtime Korean favorite, with users going as far as boycotting distributions that omit it. It's big (6 fonts in 9 faces). Fontconfig has been changed upstream to use it as default Korean font set instead of Baekmuk (traditional Fedora Korean font).
- UN fonts are probably best packaged by a Korean speaker, but this is not a hard rule.
- Upstream needs to be contacted to add the usual FSF font embedding exception to the license.
- Upstream needs to be contacted to publish the sfd sources the fonts are built from.
- Upstream needs to be contacted to clarify it's position WRT GPL v3.
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Ten additional faces for UN fonts.
- UN Extra fonts are probably best packaged by the same packager as UN fonts, but this is not a hard rule.
- Upstream needs to be contacted to add the usual FSF font embedding exception to the license.
- Upstream needs to be contacted to publish the sfd sources the fonts are built from.
- Upstream needs to be contacted to clarify it's position WRT GPL v3.
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Unikurd Web
A widely used Kurdish font, now GPL-ed for inclusion in FLOSS systems.
- requires a Kurdish packager since upstream site is Kurdish-only.
- needs the FSF font exception added to its license file by upstream.
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Vollkorn
German font licensed under CC-BY.
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Widelands
Widelands is a decorative/Titling font, it only comes with a Regular variant for Latin glyphs.
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Y.Oz
Japanese font set for Japanese users by Japanese designer, on Japanese site with Japanese license, so reading Japanese is a prerequisite for packaging. Looks nice — we need more CJK fonts.
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