Fonts

Using fonts with TeX was once a Jedi fight, before (2013 / 2015 ?) and LuaTeX development.

Nowadays, Fonts are a piece of cake

• #1 Use fonts provided with ConTeXt

  Really the basics, in 2 or 3 steps, less than 1 minute.

• #2 Use fonts found on the web

  Also the basics, in 2 or 3 steps, less than 5 minutes.

• #3 Use fonts of your Operating System

  Few preliminary commands, then it's as easy as #2

Advanced stuff

• Obviously, fonts features:
  • Small caps
  • Ligatures (2017)
  • Kerning
  • What defines the size in a font? (2019)
  • Optical Size (!!! WARNING !!! 2010 = TO KEEP OR NOT TO KEEP)

• Deep dive into typescripts
  • Alegreya Typescript: a quite complete example (2019), MkIV for the Alegreya fonts by Huerta Tipográfica / Juan Pablo del Peral, downloadable from Google Fonts.
  • Summary of experiences of three Fraktur (2019)

• Font chapter of the reference manual
  • 2001 reference manual (!!! WARNING !!! TO KEEP OR NOT TO KEEP)
  • 2013 reference manual never officially released, with a font chapter
  • the 2013 font chapter as a separate document

• Vocabulary : fontname, fontfamily, typeface, typescript, fonts, styles...

Liens

• \definefontfamily
• \definedfont

I just have realised that \definefont requires fontname of font not identifier neither familyname.