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From: Willie Wong <wwong@Princeton.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] recommendations sought for fonts
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:25:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090329212529.GA28720@princeton.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yu9bprkkr4w.fsf@nyu.edu>

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 04:31:27PM -0400, Penguin Lover Allan Gottlieb squawked:
> I suspect I am missing some useful fonts as various web pages have funny
> chars and would appreciate suggestions as to which ones to emerge.
> 
> My current list follows.  Thanks in advance for any help.
> allan
> 
> ================================================================
> 
> allan gottlieb # eix --installed --only-names font
> media-fonts/corefonts
> media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi
> media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi
> media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-type1
> media-fonts/font-alias
> media-fonts/font-bh-type1
> media-fonts/font-cursor-misc
> media-fonts/font-misc-misc
> media-fonts/font-util
> media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std

You probably want unifont, which is a bitmap font, but has the most
extensive coverage of unicode characters. Otherwise, dejavu covers a 
reasonably large set of Western characters in unicode, but looks a bit 
nicer as it is TrueType (if I remember correctly). 

W
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-29 21:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-29 20:31 [gentoo-user] recommendations sought for fonts Allan Gottlieb
2009-03-29 21:25 ` Willie Wong [this message]
2009-03-30  0:55 ` Dale
2009-03-30  2:01   ` Paul Hartman
2009-03-30 15:08     ` Allan Gottlieb

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