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Fonts in X11R7.7

Juliusz Chroboczek

<jch@freedesktop.org>

X Version 11, Release 7.7

16 March 2012

Table of Contents

Introduction

Two font systems

Installing fonts

Configuring Xft
Configuring the core X11 fonts system

Fonts included with X11R7.7

Standard bitmap fonts
The ClearlyU Unicode font family
Standard scalable fonts
The Bigelow & Holmes Luxi family

More about core fonts

Core fonts and internationalisation
Additional notes about scalable core fonts

Appendix: background and terminology

Characters and glyphs
Font files, fonts, and XLFD
Unicode

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