Fonts inclusion history

The following table traces font package inclusion history in Fedora:

Fonts packages timeline

Release	Packages added	Packages dropped	Main events
F6	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.
F7		wqy-bitmap-fonts wqy-unibit-fonts wqy-zenhei-fonts	First Core+Extras merged release.
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 creation late in the Fedora 8 cycle.
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.
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.

Fonts in Fedora
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