fonts-sil-gentiumplus-compact

extended smart font family for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic

Gentium ("belonging to the nations" in Latin) is a Unicode typeface family designed to enable the many diverse ethnic groups around the world who use the Latin script to produce readable, high-quality publications. The design is intended to be highly readable, reasonably compact, and visually attractive. Gentium has won a "Certificate of Excellence in Typeface Design" in two major international typeface design competitions: bukva:raz! (2001) and TDC2003 (2003). The goal is to provide a single Unicode-based font family that contains a comprehensive inventory of glyphs needed for almost any Roman- or Cyrillic-based writing system, whether used for phonetic or orthographic needs, and provide a matching Greek face. In addition, there is provision for other characters and symbols useful to linguists. This font makes use of state-of-the-art font technologies to support complex typographic issues, such as the need to position arbitrary combinations of base glyphs and diacritics optimally.

fonts-sil-harmattan

Arabic script font designed for use by languages in West Africa

Harmattan, named after the trade winds that blow during the dry season in West Africa, is designed in a Warsh style to suit the needs of languages using the Arabic script in West Africa.

texlive-fonts-extra-links

TeX Live: Setup of fonts for TeX Live and search via kpathsea

This package ships links to all the fonts that are originally in TeX Live, collection fonts-extra, but are not shipped in the Debian package texlive-fonts-extra due to availability in separate packages. . For documents searching these fonts by file name instead of using fontconfig lookups, the font files need to be linked into the TEXMF tree of TeX Live. This package ships these links and depends on all the font packages required.

fonts-sil-alkalami

Font for Arabic-based writing systems in the Kano region

Alkalami is the local word for the Arabic "qalam", a type of sharpened stick used for writing on wooden boards in the Kano region of Nigeria and in Niger, and what gives the style its distinct appearance. The baseline stroke is very thick and solid. The ascenders and other vertical strokes including the teeth are very narrow when compared to the baseline. A generous line height is necessary to allow for deep swashes and descenders, and the overall look of the page is a very black, solid rectangle. Diacritics are much smaller in scale, with very little distance from the main letters.

fonts-sil-akatab

Akatab is a Tifinagh font

Akatab is a TrueType font for the Tifinagh script with smart font capabilities added using state-of-the-art font technologies. This means that complex typographic issues such as the placement of combining marks or the formation of ligatures are handled by the font, provided you are running an application that provides an adequate level of support for one of these smart font technologies.

fonts-creep2

Copy of the 'creep' font with a strict character bounding box

The 'creep' font is a pretty compact font that is only 4 pixels wide. It is great for smaller screens, in order to be able to maintain high text density on screens reported as small as 11 inches in diagonal.