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The fonts pipeline

A page on Fedora Fonts

This page shows the current state of our font packaging efforts.

Packaged fonts

This section lists the fonts that went through our packaging process and are available in the distribution. Usually they'll stay available forever, but sometimes we have to retire fonts.


Abyssinica SIL

Ethiopic script

Homepage Format & features License Review reference Koji page pkgdb page
Abyssinica SIL TTF OFL 291091 5031 abyssinica-fonts


Artwiz Aleczapka

Homepage Format & features License Review reference Koji page pkgdb page
Artwiz Aleczapka PCF GPLv2 174240 1325 artwiz-aleczapka-fonts


Baekmuk

Korean typefaces

Homepage Format & features License Review reference Koji page pkgdb page
Baekmuk PCF Baekmuk 302451 5035 baekmuk-bdf-fonts
Baekmuk TTF Baekmuk 300651 5033 baekmuk-ttf-fonts


Charis SIL

Currently in maintenance mode.

Homepage Format & features License Review reference Koji page pkgdb page
Charis SIL TTF OFL 181993 1458 charis-fonts
Style Faces Scripts
Sans Serif Other R B I BI Other Latin Greek Cyrillic Other
Variable Monospace Variable Monospace
✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘

CJK Uni

Chinese truetype fonts

Homepage Format & features License Review reference Koji page pkgdb page
CJK Uni TTF Arphic 253813 4958 cjkunifonts

Culmus

Hebrew fonts

Homepage Format & features License Review reference Koji page pkgdb page
Culmus afm,pfa GPLv2 317901 5149 culmus-fonts
Culmus Fancy afm,pfa GPL 173897 1750 fonts-hebrew-fancy

DejaVu

May replace DejaVu LGC as default font in Fedora 9.

DejaVu TTF, hinting, locl Part Bitstream Vera, part public domain FE-ML 1581 dejavu-fonts


Style Faces Scripts
Sans Serif 2> Other 2> R 2> B 2> I 2> BI 2> Other 2> Latin 2> Greek 2> Cyrillic 2> Other
Variable Monospace Variable Monospace
✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ Condensed, Extralight ✘ ✘ ✘ ar, hy, ka, nko, lo, tfng
✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ar, ka, lo
✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ Condensed ✘ ✘ ✘ ka

Starting from Fedora 9 DejaVu LGC is built as a DejaVu subpackage:


Style Faces Scripts
Sans Serif 2> Other 2> R 2> B 2> I 2> BI 2> Other 2> Latin 2> Greek 2> Cyrillic 2> Other
Variable Monospace Variable Monospace
✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ Condensed, Extralight ✘ ✘ ✘
✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘
✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ Condensed ✘ ✘ ✘

Doulos SIL

"glyphs needed for almost any Roman- or Cyrillic-based writing system"

Doulos SIL TTF OFL 181994 1613 doulos-fonts

Edrip

A contrast decorative sans-serif font, with limited coverage support..

Edrip TTF OFL 437419 5980 edrip-fonts
Style Faces Scripts
Sans Serif 2> Other 2> R 2> B 2> I 2> BI 2> Other 2> Latin 2> Greek 2> Cyrillic 2> Other
Variable Monospace Variable Monospace
✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘

GFS Artemisia

GFS Artemisia is a serif font including Greek and Latin glyphs.

Greek Font Society OTF OFL 398491 5345 gfs-artemisia-fonts


Style Faces Scripts
Sans Serif 2> Other 2> R 2> B 2> I 2> BI 2> Other 2> Latin 2> Greek 2> Cyrillic 2> Other
Variable Monospace Variable Monospace
✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘

GFS Baskerville

GFS Baskerville is a Greek oblique serif font.

Greek Font Society OTF OFL 398761 5363 gfs-baskerville-fonts


Style Faces Scripts
Sans Serif 2> Other 2> R 2> B 2> I 2> BI 2> Other 2> Latin 2> Greek 2> Cyrillic 2> Other
Variable Monospace Variable Monospace
✘ ✘ ✘

GFS Bodoni

GFS Bodoni is a serif font including Greek and Latin glyphs.

Greek Font Society OTF OFL 398501 5346 gfs-bodoni-fonts


Style Faces Scripts
Sans Serif 2> Other 2> R 2> B 2> I 2> BI 2> Other 2> Latin 2> Greek 2> Cyrillic 2> Other
Variable Monospace Variable Monospace
✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘

GFS Bodoni Classic

GFS Bodoni Classic is a Greek oblic serif font.

Greek Font Society OTF OFL 398771 5364 gfs-bodoni-classic-fonts


Style Faces Scripts
Sans Serif 2> Other 2> R 2> B 2> I 2> BI 2> Other 2> Latin 2> Greek 2> Cyrillic 2> Other
Variable Monospace Variable Monospace
✘ ✘ ✘

GFS Complutum

GFS Complutum is a Greek sans serif font.

Greek Font Society OTF OFL 398781 5365 gfs-complutum-fonts


Style Faces Scripts
Sans Serif 2> Other 2> R 2> B 2> I 2> BI 2> Other 2> Latin 2> Greek 2> Cyrillic 2> Other
Variable Monospace Variable Monospace
✘ ✘

GFS Didot

GFS Didot is a serif font including Greek and Latin glyphs. The Latin glyphs are inspired by Zapf's Palatino design.

Greek Font Society OTF OFL 398511 5357 gfs-didot-fonts
Style Faces Scripts
Sans Serif 2> Other 2> R 2> B 2> I 2> BI 2> Other 2> Latin 2> Greek 2> Cyrillic 2> Other
Variable Monospace Variable Monospace
✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘

GFS Didot Classic

GFS Didot Classic is a Greek serif font.

Greek Font Society OTF OFL 398691 5347 gfs-didot-classic-fonts
Style Faces Scripts
Sans Serif 2> Other 2> R 2> B 2> I 2> BI 2> Other 2> Latin 2> Greek 2> Cyrillic 2> Other
Variable Monospace Variable Monospace
✘ ✘ ✘

GFS Gazis

GFS Gazis is a Greek serif font.

Greek Font Society OTF OFL 398841 5366 gfs-gazis-fonts


Style Faces Scripts
Sans Serif 2> Other 2> R 2> B 2> I 2> BI 2> Other 2> Latin 2> Greek 2> Cyrillic 2> Other
Variable Monospace Variable Monospace
✘ ✘ ✘

GFS Neohellenic

GFS Neohellenic is a sans serif font including Greek and Latin glyphs.

Greek Font Society OTF OFL 398531 5348 gfs-neohellenic-fonts


Style Faces Scripts
Sans Serif 2> Other 2> R 2> B 2> I 2> BI 2> Other 2> Latin 2> Greek 2> Cyrillic 2> Other
Variable Monospace Variable Monospace
✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘

GFS Olga

GFS Olga is an experimental serif oblique font including Greek glyphs.

Greek Font Society OTF OFL 398541 5355 gfs-olga-fonts
Style Faces Scripts
Sans Serif 2> Other 2> R 2> B 2> I 2> BI 2> Other 2> Latin 2> Greek 2> Cyrillic 2> Other
Variable Monospace Variable Monospace
✘ ✘ ✘

GFS Porson

GFS Porson is a Greek serif font.

Greek Font Society OTF OFL 398701 5358 gfs-porson-fonts
Style Faces Scripts
Sans Serif 2> Other 2> R 2> B 2> I 2> BI 2> Other 2> Latin 2> Greek 2> Cyrillic 2> Other
Variable Monospace Variable Monospace
✘ ✘ ✘

GFS Solomos

GFS Solomos is a Greek oblique serif font.

Greek Font Society OTF OFL 398711 5359 gfs-solomos-fonts
Style Faces Scripts
Sans Serif 2> Other 2> R 2> B 2> I 2> BI 2> Other 2> Latin 2> Greek 2> Cyrillic 2> Other
Variable Monospace Variable Monospace
✘ ✘ ✘

GFS Theokritos

GFS Theokritos is a decorative serif font including Greek and Latin glyphs.

Greek Font Society OTF OFL 398551 5360 gfs-theokritos-fonts
Style Faces Scripts
Sans Serif 2> Other 2> R 2> B 2> I 2> BI 2> Other 2> Latin 2> Greek 2> Cyrillic 2> Other
Variable Monospace Variable Monospace
Decorative serif ✘ ✘ ✘

Inconsolata

A monospaced font designed for printed code listings.

Inconsolata OTF OFL


Jomolhari

Bhutanese Tibetan script font for Dzongkha.

Kacst

Arabic fonts.

Liberation

Needs more coverage ; while released under a free license it is developed by Ascender with no community interaction[[FootNote(See also bug 304441 )  ; OFL-ing would be nice.

Liberation TTF GPLv2 with exception 239884 85141 liberation-fonts
Style Faces Scripts
Sans Serif 2> Other 2> R 2> B 2> I 2> BI 2> Other 2> Latin 2> Greek 2> Cyrillic 2> Other
Variable Monospace Variable Monospace
✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘
✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘
✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘

Linux Libertine

The Linux Libertine Open Fonts are a TrueType font family for practical use in documents. They were created to provide a free alternative to proprietary standard fonts.

LKLUG

Sinhala fonts

Lohit

Indic scripts

Madan

Nepali font

MathML

Mathematical symbol fonts

MgOpen

A family of fonts that includes Latin and Greek glyphs.

Nafees Web Naskh

Nafees Web font for writing Urdu in the Naskh script

Paktype

Arabic

Samyak

Indic scripts

Sazanami

Japanese TrueType fonts

Silkscreen

A four member type family for Web graphics

STIX

Scientific and engineering fonts, major FLOSS project initiated in 1995, first release: 2007-10-31.

STIX fonts OTF STIX 361441 5222 stix-fonts
Style Faces Scripts
Sans Serif 2> Other 2> R 2> B 2> I 2> BI 2> Other 2> Latin 2> Greek 2> Cyrillic 2> Other
Variable Monospace Variable Monospace
✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ Lots of scientific end engineering glyphs

Thai Scalable

A collection of free Thai outline fonts.

ThaiFonts-Scalable OTF GPLv2+ 431829 5774 thaifonts-scalable

Tibetan Machine Uni

Tibetan

Tiresias

URW

VLGothic

Vine Linux Gothic fonts for Japanese

Wen Quan Yi

Chinese fonts: wqy-bitmap, wqy-unibit, wqy-zenhei

Yanone Kaffeesatz

Yanone Kaffeesatz OTF CC-BY 398341 5560 yanone-kaffeesatz-fonts
Style Faces Scripts
Sans Serif 2> Other 2> R 2> B 2> I 2> BI 2> Other 2> Latin 2> Greek 2> Cyrillic 2> Other
Variable Monospace Variable Monospace
✘ ✘ ✘ Thin, Light ✘

Fonts being worked on

This section lists the fonts that have been packaged and are waiting to complete their review process. Once this process is finished, they move to the previous section , after filling the Koji page and pkgdb page cells.

Fonts listed there may need attention from a friendly reviewer .

Écolier court

Little artistic font, useful for education uses, needs some bugfixing and designer love.

Écolier court TTF OFL 261881
Style Faces Scripts
Sans Serif 2> Other 2> R 2> B 2> I 2> BI 2> Other 2> Latin 2> Greek 2> Cyrillic 2> Other
Variable Monospace Variable Monospace
Schoolchild cursive ✘ ✘


Font wishes

If you haven't done so yet, read our legal page before proposing new fonts.

This section lists fonts identified as likely candidates for Fedora integration, with potential packagers. Fonts that entered the Fedora review process should be moved to the [#review-needed review-needed section] after filling the review reference cell and CC-ing the bugs list in the bugzilla ticket. Fonts that proved unpackageable after analysis should be moved to the rejected-fonts section , to avoid duplication of effort.

To allow embedding in other parts of the Fedora wiki, the wish-list is hosted on a dedicated page .

Fonts listed there may need attention from a friendly packager .
  • add a section if you want a new font packaged. Do spend the time to fill font ID table – packagers are less likely to look at a font without information.
  • if you're interested in one of those fonts, and a Fedora member is listed as potential packager, take the time to contact him. He may welcome someone else working on it.
  • coverage can be checked on fileformat .

Public "free" fonts lists

Several public lists of "free" fonts exist. They all have their pros and cons.

Open Font Library

The Open Font Library is a young project dedicated to the creation of free/libre-open fonts. Any currently unpackaged font listed there is probably fair game for packaging (but do check our legal page anyway).

In addition new external free/libre-open font references are regularly posted on the Open Font Library mailing list .

Fonts listed there are have been screened for legal suitability, but not for artistic quality or internationalization.

Unifont

Unifont lists fonts critical for good internationalization. Most of the fonts listed there have a long history and would really help Fedora users of the corresponding locales. That also means a lot of them antedate recent work on free/libre licenses . For example it is common to forget about embedding .

However, the licensing information on Unifont is not always up to date, and careful advocacy by local teams is likely to result in Fedora-friendly relicensing.

Fonts listed there are have been screened for internationalization, but not for artistic quality or legal suitability.

Smashing magazine

Smashing magazine regularly posts lists of free/gratis fonts the editor approves the design of. A few of them are free/libre-open and thus could be packaged directly.

The bulk of the listed fonts is released by foundries or individual font designers under terms not suitable for Fedora. However those terms usually only reflect the common preoccupations of font designers. They were probably not intended to prevent Fedora-style redistribution. Careful advocacy may therefore convince some authors to relicense under laxer terms that still protect them while allowing Fedora packaging.

In particular Manfred Klein may be open to a relicensing that allows distribution in OLPC through Fedora.

Fonts listed there are of high artistic quality, but have not been screened for legal or internationalization suitability.

Wazu Japan's Gallery of Unicode Fonts

Wazu Japan is not strictly speaking a free/open font directory, but many of the fonts listed there are perfectly acceptable for Fedora, and usually not listed anywhere else.

Some of the URLs are stale but a little googling is usually sufficient to find the new font home.

Fonts listed there are have been screened for internationalization, but not for artistic quality or legal suitability.

Fontconfig

The fontconfig defaults list many notable fonts which are likely to encountered on Linux systems. Not all of them are free/open and suitable for Fedora inclusion, but most of them are, and we've not packaged them all yet.

Fonts listed there are have been screened for internationalization, but not for artistic quality or legal suitability.

Fedora Fonts
Fedora Fonts
Fedora acceptability
If you haven't done so yet, please read our legal page and check Category:Rejected and retired fonts before proposing new fonts.


This category lists fonts identified as likely candidates for Fedora integration. To add an entry, just create a new wiki page using the current template. This page explains the easy steps needed to gain wiki editing access.

Additionally, if you need inspiration:


Packagers wanted!
Fonts listed there need the attention of a friendly packager.


To package one of those fonts, change its page as documented in the Packager notes of the template. Then follow the usual Fedora packaging process. You can find font-specific packaging tips on our packaging page.

The whole lifecycle of a font package is described there.


Fonts in Fedora
The Fonts SIG takes loving care of Fedora fonts. Please join this special interest group if you are interested in creating, improving, packaging, or just suggesting a font. Any help will be appreciated.

Rejected fonts

This section lists fonts that were proposed for packaging but were rejected after analysis for some reason.

Retired fonts

This section lists fonts that used to be distributed by Fedora, but are not any longer. They may have been superseded by other fonts, or failed a license audit, or their maintainer stop caring about them, etc.

DejaVu LGC

Starting from F9, built as a DejaVu subpackage.

DejaVu TTF, hinting, locl Part Bitstream Vera, part public domain 240 dejavu-lgc-fonts
Style Faces Scripts
Sans Serif 2> Other 2> R 2> B 2> I 2> BI 2> Other 2> Latin 2> Greek 2> Cyrillic 2> Other
Variable Monospace Variable Monospace
✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ Condensed, Extralight ✘ ✘ ✘
✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘
✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ Condensed ✘ ✘ ✘

Hunky

Modified Bitstream Vera fonts with additional letters. Covers Baltic, Central European, South European and other languages, including Azeri, Maori, Welsh and Esperanto.

Retired since most users prefer DejaVu nowadays, and upstream is not active anymore.

Luxi

Licensing proved incompatible with the project goals. May get back in if someone convinces the original foundry to relicense under more liberal terms.

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