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A page of the Fonts Special Interest Group

The following table traces font package inclusion history in Fedora:



Fonts packages timeline
Release Packages added Packages dropped Main events
Fonts SIG creation late in the Fedora 8 cycle.
F9
  1. edrip-fonts
  2. gfs-artemisia-fonts
  3. gfs-baskerville-fonts
  4. gfs-bodoni-classic-fonts
  5. gfs-bodoni-fonts
  6. gfs-complutum-fonts
  7. gfs-didot-classic-fonts
  8. gfs-didot-fonts
  9. gfs-gazis-fonts
  10. gfs-neohellenic-fonts
  11. gfs-olga-fonts
  12. gfs-porson-fonts
  13. gfs-solomos-fonts
  14. gfs-theokritos-fonts
  15. inconsolata-fonts
  16. samyak-fonts-devanagari
  17. samyak-fonts-gujarati
  18. samyak-fonts-malayalam
  19. samyak-fonts-oriya
  20. samyak-fonts-tamil
  21. sarai-fonts
  22. silkscreen-fonts
  23. smc-fonts-dyuthi
  24. smc-fonts-meera
  25. smc-fonts-rachana
  26. smc-fonts-raghumalayalam
  27. smc-fonts-suruma
  28. stix-fonts
  29. stix-fonts-integrals
  30. stix-fonts-pua
  31. stix-fonts-sizes
  32. stix-fonts-variants
  33. thaifonts-scalable
  34. tiresias-fonts
  35. VLGothic-fonts-proportional
  36. wqy-zenhei-fonts
  37. yanone-kaffeesatz-fonts
  1. hunky-fonts
  2. xorg-x11-fonts-syriac
  3. xorg-x11-fonts-truetype (Luxi)
  • Licensing audit causes some non-modifiable xorg fonts to be removed.
  • The full version of DejaVu is now the distribution main font set.
F10

(as of 2008-07-21)

  1. andika-fonts
  2. asana-math-fonts
  3. brettfont-fonts
  4. ecolier-court-fonts
  5. gfs-ambrosia-fonts
  6. gfs-eustace-fonts
  7. gfs-fleischman-fonts
  8. gfs-jackson-fonts
  9. gfs-nicefore-fonts
  10. icelandic-fonts
  11. japanese-bitmap-fonts (renamed from fonts-japanese)
  12. khmeros-fonts-base
  13. khmeros-fonts-battambang
  14. khmeros-fonts-bokor
  15. khmeros-fonts-handwritten
  16. khmeros-fonts-metalchrieng
  17. khmeros-fonts-muol
  18. khmeros-fonts-siemreap
  19. padauk-fonts
  20. roadstencil-fonts
  1. fonts-bengali
  2. fonts-chinese
  3. fonts-gujarati
  4. fonts-hindi
  5. fonts-kannada
  6. fonts-korean
  7. fonts-malayalam
  8. fonts-oriya
  9. fonts-punjabi
  10. fonts-sinhala
  11. fonts-tamil
  12. fonts-telugu

fonts-script packages are removed. Their content has been migrated to other packages in previous releases, and the compatibility meta-packages are finally dropped.


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.