Fonts

Using a newly downloaded font

Quickly use one of the styles (3 steps, 1 min.)

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

#1. 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/.

#2. Regenerate ConTeXt databases

• the file database: mtxrun --generate
• the fonts database: mtxrun --script font --reload
• and check the situation mtxrun --script font --list --file -pattern=*noto*:

familyname   weight   style    width    variant   fontname              filename                   subfont   fontweight

notoserif    bold     normal   normal   normal    notoserifbold         NotoSerif-Bold.ttf
notoserif    bold     italic   normal   normal    notoserifbolditalic   NotoSerif-BoldItalic.ttf
notoserif    normal   italic   normal   normal    notoserifitalic       NotoSerif-Italic.ttf
notoserif    normal   normal   normal   normal    notoserif             NotoSerif-Regular.ttf

#3. Your are done! You can use the font anywhere on in your input files.

• Use the commands \definedfont

\definedfont[file:NotoSerif-BoldItalic at 12pt]
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Use all the styles (3 steps, 1 min.)

#1. 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

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

\definefontfamily [MyFontIdentifier] [rm] [notoserif]

#3. You are done! Finally, we have the following input file

\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.

There are any ready to go typpescript file, tex/texmf-context/tex/context/fonts/mkiv/ for example :

• Included
  • DejaVu with \setupbodyfont[dejavu] or condensed version with \setupbodyfont[dejavu-condensed]
  • Gentium with \setupbodyfont[gentium]
  • Iwona with \setupbodyfont[iwona]
  • Kurier with \setupbodyfont[kurier]
  • Latin Modern with \setupbodyfont[latinmodern]
  • Gentium with \setupbodyfont[gentium]
• Non included
  • Sabon MT with \setupbodyfont[sabon]
  • Cambria with \setupbodyfont[cambria]
  • Garamond with \setupbodyfont[ebgaramond]
  • Zapfino MT with \setupbodyfont[zapfino]
  • Optima Nova with \setupbodyfont[optima-nova], or \setupbodyfont[optima-nova-light] \setupbodyfont[optima-nova-medium]
  • Palatino Nova with \setupbodyfont[palatino-nova], or \setupbodyfont[palatino-nova-light] \setupbodyfont[palatino-nova-medium], and \setupbodyfont[palatino-sans] \setupbodyfont[palatino-informal]
  • Liberation with \setupbodyfont[liberation]
  • Libertine with \setupbodyfont[liberatine]
  • Lucida with \setupbodyfont[lucida-opentype] OR \setupbodyfont[lucida]
  • Minion with \setupbodyfont[minion]
  • MacOSx default: baskerville, gillsans, futura, helvetica-neue and -ultralight, -light, -boldcondensed, ...
  • IMB plex :
    • plex, -thin, -extralight, -light, -text, -medium, -semibold, -bold
    • ibmplexnarrow, -thin, -extralight, -light

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

Style, see the font chapter, of the never really issued Reference Manual:

• in the whole manual
• as a separate document section "Simple font definitions"

I want use specific features

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

weight light, regular, medium, bold, extra... width : condensed, Semi Condensed , regular, Semi Extended , Extended shape : regular, italic caps : regular, smallcaps

Liens

• Style_and_Color_Parameters
• \definefontfamily
• \definedfont

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

https://source.contextgarden.net/tex/context/fonts/mkiv

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