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• A Quick Primer On Unicode and Software Internationalization Under Linux and UNIX - A guide to the important open source software tools, including configuration and setup tips, to assist users involved with multilingual and internationalization Linux projects. (2005)
• Bitstream's font engine - btX - A font engine for Linux.
• DejaVu Fonts - An open source font project based on Bitstream's vera fonts.
• FIGlet - A program for making large letters out of ordinary text; has font examples and a font database.
• FontForge - An outline font editor. The user interface has been localized for: (English), French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Simplified Chinese, and Vietnamese. Formerly called PfaEdit.
• Fontconfig - A library for font customization and configuration.
• Fontmatrix - A Linux font manager for both the home user and design professional. This software has individual user accounts, which allows each user to activate different fonts on a per-project basis.
• GNOME - Bitstream Vera Fonts README - Bitstream Vera fonts are available for download here.
• Gentium - A Typeface for the Nations - A typeface family designed for diverse ethnic groups who use the Latin script to produce readable, high-quality publications. Support for a wide range of Latin-based alphabets; includes glyphs that correspond to all the Latin ranges of Unicode. Licensed under the SIL Open Font License, a Free copyleft license for fonts.
• IndiX - Indian language support for Linux.
• KhmerOS - Khmer Software Initiative - The purpose of the The KhmerOS Project is to ensure that all Cambodians have access to computers in their own language (Khmer); unicode font information, downloads of software in the Khmer language, forums, support, and blogs are available on this site.
• Liberation Fonts - Free replacement fonts for Arial/Helvetica, Courier, and Times Roman.
• Linux Libertine Open Fonts Project - An open source, GPL'd font project that produces fonts in TrueType Format; site available in German and English.
• Linux.com Article - "A Font Primer for Linux" - An article about the different types of fonts (TrueType, OpenType, FreeType, Type 1, etc) and how these are incorporated on the Linux desktop. (2004) N.B.: The introductory overview is dated, but the details that follow are still quite useful today. (2009)
• Luc Devroye's Font Pages - Contains lots of information about fonts, including specialized fonts, fonts by country, metafonts, typography and research.
• Microsft's TrueType Core Fonts on Linux - How to install Microsoft's TrueType core fonts on Linux.
• Open Font Library - The goal of this project is to collect free software fonts - those that may be used, changed and shared freely. It is a sister project to the Open Clip Art Library, and has released or hosted over 125 fonts to date (2009).
• Optimal Use of Fonts on Linux - HOWTO - A detailed font HOWTO for Linux. (2007)
• Pango - A flexible, open source solution for internationalized text layout and rendering.
• SIL Font Downloads - A cornucopia of free fonts for language support, especially for minority languages. These fonts are licensed under the GPL-compatible SIL Open Font License.
• The FREETYPE Project - Free, portable and high-quality software for digital typography.
• The Free Bangla Fonts Project - Home - A central resource site for obtaining and developing Free Bengali fonts.
• The gdkxft Homepage - Anti-aliased fonts for gtk+-1.2
• True Type Font to Postscript type 1 Converter - Converter of various scalable font formats (most notably TTF) and of the bitmapped BDF format into PostScript Type 1 fonts and metrics (.pfa, .pfb, .afm).
• Unicode - Details of every unicode character there is.
• Unifont Homepage - The best Unicode font site available; includes information about Unicode fonts, Unicode-enabled software, internationalization, and Unicode usability issues on free/libre/open source (FLOSS) operating systems.
• Xft - the X Font Library - A client-side font API for X applications; uses Fontconfig to select fonts and the X protocol for rendering them.

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