Fonts

How to use one of the provided fonts: 4 steps, 10 sec.

#1. First, be aware of the 21 fonts provided and their "nickname".

• If required, you can regenerate the font database mtxrun --script font --reload --force

#2. Give a name to the set of fonts you want to use and select a first font

• Use the command \definefontfamily.
• Let's take an example, for a Serif font, for which TeX practice is to refer to them as roman (=rm)

• \definefontfamily[MyFontIdentifier][rm][nickname of the serif font]

#3. Declare it as your default font family for your document

• Use the command with \setupbodyfont

• \setupbodyfont[MyFontIdentifier]

#4. Specify the font size

• \setupbodyfont[xxpt]

To learn how to use different alternative styles of a given font, like regular / bold / italic, see the Font_Switching in the Basics.

Example

• Let see what give the defaults:

  \setupbodyfont[12pt]
  {The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}\\
  {\bf The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}\\
  {\it The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}\\
  

  
• And let's add the two lines, using Tex Gyre Pagella Serif font (ref:texgyrepagella):

  \definefontfamily [MyFontIdentifier] [rm] [texgyrepagella]
  \setupbodyfont[MyFontIdentifier]
  \setupbodyfont[12pt]
  {The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}\\
  {\bf The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}\\
  {\it The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}\\
  

  

How to use more than one of the provided fonts: 1 step, 5 sec.

#1. Very similarly to above, just add more font in your font family.

• for a Sans Serif font, for which TeX practice is to refer to them as Sans Serif (=ss)

• \definefontfamily[MyFontIdentifier][ss][refcode to the sans serif font]

• for a monospaced font, for which TeX practice is to refer to them as TypewriTer (=tt)

• \definefontfamily[MyFontIdentifier][tt][refcode to the monospaced font]

• for a math font, for which TeX practice is to refer to them as MatheMatics (=mm)

• \definefontfamily[MyFontIdentifier][mm][refcode to the math font]

• the limit is that in TeX practice, we only have one roman, one sans serif, per font family.
• in order to use more (like variation condensed, extralight etc...) we have to define other font family (MyFontIdentifier-condensed, MyFontIdentifier-light)

Example

• This basic input is typeset with the default font, Latin Modern:

  \setupbodyfont[12pt]
  {\rm    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}\\
  {\rm\bf The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}\\
  {\rm\it The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}\\
  \\
  {\ss    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}\\
  {\ss\bf The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}\\
  {\ss\it The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}\\
  \\
  {\tt    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}\\
  {\tt\bf The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}\\
  {\tt\it The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}\\
  

  
• And by adding the two lines discussed above, and using the reference to Tex Gyre Pagella Serif font (texgyrepagella) we obtain:

  \definefontfamily [MyFontIdentifier] [rm] [texgyrepagella]
  \definefontfamily [MyFontIdentifier] [ss] [texgyreadventor]
  \definefontfamily [MyFontIdentifier] [tt] [texgyrecursor]
  \setupbodyfont[MyFontIdentifier]
  \setupbodyfont[12pt]
  {\rm    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}\\
  {\rm\bf The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}\\
  {\rm\it The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}\\
  \\
  {\ss    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}\\
  {\ss\bf The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}\\
  {\ss\it The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}\\
  \\
  {\tt    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}\\
  {\tt\bf The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}\\
  {\tt\it The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}\\
  

  

How to use my new font: 6 steps, 3 minutes

Let's take a example, we want to use Noto Serif.

#1. Download

• The google website enable us to download a zip file with the 4 alternative styles:
  • Regular 400
  • Regular 400 italic
  • Bold 700
  • Bold 700 italic

#2. Store them is a dedicated folder

• create a "Noto-serif" in the ConTeXt distribution tex/texmf-fonts.
• unzip and store the .ttf file in tex/texmf-fonts/Noto-serif/.

#3. Regenerate ConTeXt databases

• the file database: mtxrun --generate
• the fonts database: mtxrun --script font --reload

#4. Check if the 4 files are identified by ConTeXt now

• mtxrun --script font --list --file -pattern=*noto*

#5. Define them as a new typescript (ConTeXt vocabulary) in your input file.

• Use the commands \starttypescript and \definefontsynonym to declare

\starttypescript [serif] [notoserif]
  \definefontsynonym[NotoSerif-Regular]         [file:NotoSerif-Regular]
  \definefontsynonym[NotoSerif-Italic]          [file:NotoSerif-Italic]
  \definefontsynonym[NotoSerif-Bold]            [file:NotoSerif-Bold]
  \definefontsynonym[NotoSerif-BoldItalic]      [file:NotoSerif-BoldItalic]
\stoptypescript

#6. Define them as part of your font family, here as a roman

\definefontfamily [MyFontIdentifier] [rm] [notoserif]

Finally, we have:

\starttypescript [serif] [notoserif]
  \definefontsynonym[NotoSerif-Regular]         [file:NotoSerif-Regular]
  \definefontsynonym[NotoSerif-Italic]          [file:NotoSerif-Italic]
  \definefontsynonym[NotoSerif-Bold]            [file:NotoSerif-Bold]
  \definefontsynonym[NotoSerif-BoldItalic]      [file:NotoSerif-BoldItalic]
\stoptypescript

\definefontfamily [MyFontIdentifier] [rm] [notoserif]

\setupbodyfont[MyFontIdentifier]
\setupbodyfont[12pt]
{\rm    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}\\
{\rm\bf The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}\\
{\rm\it The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}\\

And it gives:

Next ?

You want to play with bigger set of font ?

For example, how to use the 7 weights of Noto Serif SC ?

• Extra-light 200
• Light 300
• Regular 400
• Medium 500
• Semi-bold 600
• Bold 700
• Black 900

You have to define specific name like

• \starttypescript [serif] [notoserifscextralight]
• \starttypescript [serif] [notoserifsclight]
• \starttypescript [serif] [notoserifscreg]
• \starttypescript [serif] [notoserifscmed]

and you will switch between each other with \switchtobodyfont[notoserifscxxx] like it's done for this example of the available fonts.

You have to define "definefontfallback"

A quite complete example: Alegreya_Typescript

And to swith during

I want IBM Plex

• Sans — Thin
• Sans — Thin Italic
• Sans — Regular
• Sans — Regular Italic
• Sans — Bold
• Sans — Bold Italic
• Sans Condensed — Regular
• Sans Condensed — Regular Italic
• Serif — Regular
• Serif — Regular Italic
• Mono — Regular
• Mono — Regular Italic

I want use specific features

• Small caps
• Ligatures
• Kerning
• expansion=quality
• protrusion=quality,
• other: tlig, ccmp, fonts-mkiv.pdf page 65.

TODO: naming conventions for definefontssymonym ? (See: To-Do List)