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The [[SIGs/Fonts| Fonts]]  Special Interest Group is dedicated to improving fonts availability and text rendering/layouting in Fedora. Its activities include:


* [[SIGs/Fonts/Triaging/Pipeline#wishes|  finding]]  the best fonts to include, for [[I18N|  internationalization]]  and [[L10N|  localization]]  [[SIGs/Fonts/Triaging/L10N|  reasons]] , or to please our [[Artwork|  artists]] ,
* [[SIGs/Fonts/Packaging|  packaging]]  new fonts and font tools,
* free/libre font [[SIGs/Fonts/Evangelism|  evangelism]] : convince foundries to release fonts under a free/libre Fedora-friendly [[SIGs/Fonts/Legal#licenses|  license]] , recruit possible free/libre font authors…
* font [[SIGs/Fonts/Dev#font-creation|  creation and design]] ,
* identifying font or text [[SIGs/Fonts/QA|  problems]]  in applications and libraries,
* [[SIGs/Fonts/Dev|  fixing]]  them or getting them fixed,
* choosing good Fedora fonts defaults,
* etc


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 todo list is published [[SIGs/Fonts/Todo|  there]] .


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Revision as of 21:38, 11 June 2008

A page on Fedora Fonts




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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.