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Font handling in ConTeXt is “strange” for LaTeX users. It's a system of abstraction and aliases, complex and mighty … But there's help:

• Adam Lindsay's page focuses on typography (OpenType, Unicode etc.), esp. on MacOS X
• Bill McClain's ConTeXt beginners page has also a lot about fonts
• font installation with texfont by Pragma
• Integrating TrueType Fonts into ConTeXt by Thomas A. Schmitz (PracTeX Journal)
• ConTeXt's font mechanism in detail by Pragma
• making outlines by Pragma
• Here you can try out several TeX fonts online (PDF interface!)
• Troubleshooting: solving TeXfont problems.
• The ConTeXt way of using fonts are TypeScripts.
• Installing a TrueType font, step by step. If you just need to install a TrueType font, this may be what you are looking for.
• URW Garamond
• Font Handling Internals
• Pseudo Small Caps

Configuration

• Using psnfss metrics in ConTeXt
• Matt Gushee about virtual fonts
• Fonts rely on Encodings and Regimes, and it helps to know what happens underneath the hood, from time to time.
• In newer distributions, map files belong in …/fonts/map/pdftex/context!
• Don't forget to look at cont-sys.tex!

Hints by Language

• general: Encodings and Regimes
• Arabian and Hebrew (Idris? other ArabTeX specialists?)
• Chinese
• Greek
• Russian
• Vietnamese