Xlib Reference Manual for Version 11 of the X Window System

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Fonts

This appendix should tell you everything you need to know about the fonts in the X distribution. Not every font may be supported by particular server vendors, and some vendors may supplement the set. Also, a more descriptive naming scheme has been proposed, but it has not been accepted as part of the X standard at this writing.

Table J-1 lists the fonts provided in the standard X distribution. Fixed-width and variable-width fonts are listed in separated columns. Table J-2 describes the maximum metrics for characters in the font. This should help you choose a font and decide how much space to allow for strings using the font. Finally, all or most of the characters in each font are shown actual size, as they would appear on a 900 × 1180 pixel, 10″ × 13.5″ screen (Sun). On a screen with different pixel density, these fonts would appear a different size.

Table J-1. Fonts in the Standard Distribution

Table J-2 describes the maximum metrics for each font. These are the values of the max_bounds member of XFontStruct (which is an XCharStruct structure with the members shown in the table). Note that it is unlikely that any single character will be the biggest in all the measurements simultaneously; these describe the largest lbearing of any character in the font, the largest rbearing for any character in the font, and so on. For a description of each of the character measurements, see Volume One, Section 6.2.3.

Table J-2. Maximum Font Metrics

The remaining pages of this appendix show the characters in each font, actual size, as they would appear on a 900 × 1180 pixel, 10″ × 13.5″ screen (Sun). On a screen with different pixel density, these fonts would appear a proportionally different size.

For most fonts, the entire character set is shown. For very large fonts, we have sometimes shown just a few characters to save space. Also, fonts that begin with many blank characters are shown with most leading blanks removed. Therefore, you can't always get the character number of each cell in the font by counting from the first cell we have shown. Use xfd to quickly determine the code for a particular cell.

6×10

6×12

6×13

8×13

8×13bold

9×15

a14

apl-s25

arrow3

chp-s25

chs-s50

cyr-s25

cyr-s30

cyr-s38

dancer

ent

fr2-25

fr3-25

frb-32

fri-33

fri1-25

fr1-25

fr-33

fgi1-25

fgs-22

fixed

fqxb-25

fr-25

fg-30

fg-40

fg1-25

fgb-13

fgb-25

fgb1-25

fgb1-30

fgi-20

fg-25

fcor-20

fg-13

fg-16

fg-18

fg-20

fg-22

ger-s35

grk-s25

grk-s30

hbr-s25

hbr-s40

ipa-s25

kana14

krivo

lat-s30

met25

micro

mit

oldera

plunk

r14

rot-s16

runlen

sans12

sansb12

sansi12

serif10

serif12

serifb10

serifb12

serifi10

serifi12

stan

stemp1

sub

subsub

sup

supsup

swd-s30

sym-s25

sym-s53

variable

vbee-36

vctl-25

vg-13

vg-20

vg-25

vg-31

vgb-25

vgb-31

vgbc-25

vgh-25

vgi-20

vgi-25

vgi-31

vgl-40

vgvb-31

vmic-25

vply-36

vr-20

vr-25

vr-27

vr-30

vr-31

vr-40

vrb-25

vrb-30

vrb-31

vrb-35

vrb-37

vri-25

vri-30

vri-31

vri-40

vsg-114

vsgn-57

vshd-40

vtbold

vtsingle

vxms-37

vxms-43

xif-s25