Fonts SIG activities

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

Activity	OS Developer	Translator	Content Writer	Designer	People Person
find the best fonts to include, to please artists, identify font creation tools needing packaging, create and improve Fedora fonts,
find the best fonts to include, for internationalization reasons, document the preferred fonts for your locale, improve the way a font supports your script by identifying problems and proposing ameliorations,
package new fonts and font tools, review font packages before Fedora inclusion, fix font or text problems in applications and libraries,
propose good Fedora fonts defaults,
identify font or text problems in applications and libraries, improve font package descriptions and summaries to help users choose the right fonts for their needs,
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, improve the SIG visibility by getting it linked and quoted everywhere,
document font creation tasks, document free/libre font release best practices, document free/libre font packaging, clarify, complete and improve our wiki, identify interesting third-party material, and link it here, convert wiki information to other document formats.

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.

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.