fonting the universe

[Stephen Partington]

Google fonts

On Dec 3, 2016 10:13 AM, "der.hans" <PLUGd at lufthans.com> wrote:

> moin moin,
>
> I'm at my once a decade point of caring about fonts.
>
> It's awesome that distributions support so many languages, but Urdu,
> Klingon and Thai having legible fonts are not going to help me read them.
>
> fonts-gfs-complutum - ancient Greek font revival from the University of
> Alcalá, Spain
>
> That's cool and useful for a friend, but it's been a while since I've
> spoken any Greek aside from Opa[0].
>
> So, aside from grepping out 50 languages, how do I determine which debian
> packages I should install to get all the cool fonts that will enrich my
> digital culteral experience?
>
> I might be asking the same thing about CentOS and Fedora next week, so
> rpm-based answers also welcome.
>
> I am mostly concerned about xterm, konsole, GIMP and LibreOffice. In that
> order.
>
> [0] Leaving aside the many English words derived from ancient Greek, etc.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
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