The Fonts Special Interest Group is an informal group of Fedora Linux contributors. It is dedicated to improving fonts availability and text rendering/layouting in the distribution and its other Linux derivatives.
Join us and help:
Fonts SIG activities
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OS Developer
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Translator
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Content Writer
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Designer
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People Person
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- package new fonts and font tools,
- fix font or text problems in applications and libraries,
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- propose good Fedora fonts defaults,
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- identify font or text problems in applications and libraries,
- improve font package descriptions and summaries to help users select the right fonts for their needs,
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- convince foundries to release fonts under a free/libre Fedora-friendly license,
- recruit possible free/libre font authors,
- recruit new SIG members,
- get font or text problems fixed,
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- document font creation tasks,
- document free/libre font release best practices,
- document free/libre font packaging.
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Any font or text-related activity can be tackled, as long as the result is free/libre and compatible with the Fedora objectives.
The current SIG task list is published here.