Fonts

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	See below on this Fonts central page Wiki pages in Fonts category
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

How-to guides

• 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.)
• "Font Switching", or "how-to use the different fonts within your document"
  • 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...
• OpenType features for some common options for \definefontfeature like:
  • Ligatures
  • Fonts/Protrusion (also known as hanging or font handling)
• Typescripts examples
• Technical details
  • How to set up a font family with optical size options
  • What defines the size in a font ('natural' size. 'design' size)
  • Get examples from s-fonts- files, that you can compile and/or use as module for own fonts (with lua font goodies)

To tidy

• Work is also needed to merge content from Fonts in LuaTeX in the pages above.
• For older content, refering to mkii, we keep a specific zone in the wiki.