Category:Fonts SIG

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The Fonts SIG could have been named the Text or Typography SIG. While fonts are a large part of what we do, our actual scope is larger.

About us

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:

finding the best fonts to include, for internationalization and localization reasons, or to please our artists,
packaging new fonts and font tools,
free/libre font evangelism: convince foundries to release fonts under a free/libre Fedora-friendly license, recruit possible free/libre font authors…
font creation and design,
identifying font or text problems in applications and libraries,
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 task list is published here.

Get involved

Follow the steps listed on this page, and you'll be fine.

Communication

**Fonts SIG** mailing lists
Mailing list name	Intended use	Web archives
Mailing list name	Intended use	Source	Gmane	MarkMail	The mail archive
fedora-fonts-list	Main SIG coordination channel, for human discussions. Post your questions and proposals there.	Archives	Archives	Archives	Archives
fedora-fonts-bugs-list	Automated tracking of font and text issues. Consult it to follow new problem reports and fixes, CC it in issue trackers. Read only archiving list: do not post messages there, use the other list you can follow this archive via digests, internet archives, etc	Archives	Archives	Archives	Archives

We do not have a dedicated IRC channel right now; the general low-traffic ##fonts channel on irc.freenode.net should be used instead. It is shared by several free/open font groups and is distribution-agnostic.

Nicolas Spalinger of SIL, Debian and Ubuntu fonts fame has set up planet open fonts to help people in the free/libre-open fonts community exchange information.