Fonts

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

Nowadays, Fonts are a piece of cake

You will find here the preliminary steps before actually playing with the fonts in your input file. At the end, you will be able, in one or two commands, to declare the use of any fonts you want for your document.

The actual use of fonts within your document are details in Font_Switching:

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

• #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

• Deep dive into typescripts
  • What is and how far can be extended
    • a font
    • a fontfamily
    • a typeface
    • a typescript
    • a typescriptcollection
  • How to work with fonts with
    • different weights (light, extra-light, dark, extra-bold)
    • different widths (condensed, expanded)
    • different style (inline, shadowed, outline)
  • the source browser for type-imp- files.
  • 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)
  • Typescripts_examples (Cf Thomas Hala)
  • Vocabulary : fontname, fontfamily, typeface, typescript, fonts, styles...
  • What is a typescriptcollection

• Obviously, fonts features:
  • Small caps
  • Ligatures (2017)
  • protrusion
  • old style numbers
  • Kerning
  • What defines the size in a font? (2019)
  • Optical Size (!!! WARNING !!! 2010 = TO KEEP OR NOT TO KEEP)
  • the source browser for s-fonts- files, that a user can run (to get an example) or use as module for own fonts

• 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

• \definefontfamily
• \definedfont