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Tutorials (learning)	How-to guides (goals)
Handling fonts in ConTEXt (2021) ConTEXt-Meeting 15th, 2021, Willi Egger, 38 invaluable slides Font installation example: IBM Plex (2018) by Taco Hoekwater and Pavneet Arora Installation Understanding the mtxrun output Testing a few font instances Font repertoire Feature discovery Creating typescripts Fallbacks Stylistic alternates and other features	Use fonts distributed with ConTeXt How to use the 21 provided fonts. These are the basics you may want to start with, in 2 or 3 steps, less than 3 minutes. Use any other font Case 1: Quick "one shot" (< 5min.) Case 2: Comprehensive approach (~10min.)
Explanation (understanding)	Reference (information)
2016 Fonts manual, all the details for advanced users the 2013 font chapter as a separate document 2013 reference manual never officially released, with the 2013 font chapter	The commands in Fonts category

Using fonts

The actual use of fonts within your document is detailed in Font Switching:

how to define font size,
how to use alternative styles like regular / bold / italic / small caps
how to switch between serif, sans serif, monospaced, or to another fonts with \switchtobodyfont
how to underline, strike...

Typescripts examples look at the existing examples to build your own Typescripts.
Featuresets, and here some of common option for \definefontfeature
- onum=yes for old style numbers, vs lnum=yes for lining numbers
- kern=yes for kerning
- See Ligatures (2017). liga=yes for common ligature and dlig=yes for discretionary ligature (like st), calt=yes for contextual alternates.
- for small caps, the font must propose Caps variation like "EBGaramondSC12-Regular.otf" et "AlegreyaSC-Regular.otf"
- Syntax for OpenType features from Adobe
What defines the size in a font? (2019)
How to set up a font family with optical size options
Protrusion (also known as hanging or font handling) is a more subtle typographic effect (2012 need update).

the source browser for s-fonts- files, that a user can run (to get an example) or use as module for own fonts
Lua Font Goodies with examples.

Finally, for older content, refering to mkii, we keep a specific zone in the wiki. Work is also need to merge content of Fonts_in_LuaTeX here.

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 ** Stylistic alternates and other features
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-You will find here the preliminary steps before actually playing with the fonts in your input file.
-At the end, with one or two commands, you will make your document enable to use any fonts available on your computer.
 * [[Use fonts distributed with ConTeXt| Use fonts distributed with ConTeXt]]
 ** How to use the [[ConTeXt distribution's Fonts|21 provided fonts]].