# Fonts in XFree86

## Juliusz Chroboczek, jch@xfree86.org

17 January 2003

### 1. Introduction

  1.1. Two font systems

### 2. Installing fonts

  2.1. Configuring Xft
  2.2. Configuring the core X11 fonts system

### 3. Fonts included with XFree86

  3.1. Standard bitmap fonts
  3.2. The ClearlyU Unicode font family
  3.3. Standard scalable fonts
  3.4. The Bigelow & Holmes Luxi family

### 4. More about core fonts

  4.1. Core fonts and internationalisation
  4.2. Additional notes about scalable core fonts

### 5. Appendix: background and terminology

  5.1. Characters and glyphs
  5.2. Font files, fonts, and XLFD
  5.3. Unicode

### 6. References

    $XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/fonts.sgml,v 1.20 2003/01/20 03:43:07 dawes Exp $