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== Hints by Language ==
* general: [[Encodings and Regimes]]
* [[Arabic and Hebrew]] (Idris? other ArabTeX specialists?)
* [[Chinese]]
* [[Czech]]
* [[Greek]]
* [[Russian]]
* [[Vietnamese]]
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< [[VisualsBasics#Basics_of_ConTeXt_text_formatting|Text formatting]] | [[Symbols]] | [[Languages]] >
= How to use fonts in ConTeXt =
'''The ConTeXt way of handling fonts are [[TypeScripts]].''' It’s a system of abstraction and aliases, which may seem “strange” at first for new users of ConTeXt.
* If it fits your needs, consider first to use the former [[Simplefonts]] module, now in the core as {{src|font-sel.mkvi}}.
* There is now a [http://context.aanhet.net/svn/contextman/context-reference/en/co-fonts.pdf manual chapter on fonts].
* If you happen to use [[XeTeX]] then you can forget almost all the magic and start using your system fonts (see [[Fonts_in_XeTeX]]).
* If you use [[LuaTeX]], see [[Fonts_in_LuaTeX]]
* If you want to keep using [[pdfTeX]], read on.
Specific page deals with
* [[Fontsize|What defines the size in a font?]]
* [[Optical Size]]
* [[Ligatures]]
= Font support & configuration =
* Using [[psnfss]] metrics in ConTeXt
* Matt Gushee's introduction to [http://havenrockmatt.comgushee.net/doc/textipstex/bookfonts.html virtual fonts], especially for getting expert fonts to work.
* [[URW Garamond]]
* [[Lucida]] : large font family designed by Bigelow & Holmes; suitable e.g. for presentations
Another important thing is that it also does not share font map files with LaTeX and, specifically,
'''ConTeXt does not make pdfetex pdfeTeX read <tt>pdftex.map</tt>.'''
(this is at the root of a great many problems reported by users only familiar with PSNFSS)
There are ways to trick ConTeXt into using different conventions, but if you do that you are likely to run into trouble.
= Unsorted links =
* [http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~pinax/greekkeys/GreekKeys.html GreekKeys] : links to polytonic Greek fonts
* [http://scholarsfonts.net Scholar's Fonts] : Font for Scholars (Latin, Germanic languages, Greek, Hebrew and Linguistics)
* [http://www.engljunicode.virginiasourceforge.edu/OEnet/junicode/junicode.html Junicode] : Junius-Unicode, a font for medievalists
* [http://www.freelang.net/fonts/index.html FreeLang fonts] : fonts for exotic languages
* [http://www.blambot.com Blambot] : Comic fonts
* ''... many more to be added ...''
== Recent experiences ==
; 2019
:* [[Alegreya Typescript]] MkIV for the Alegreya fonts by Huerta Tipográfica / Juan Pablo del Peral, downloadable from [https://fonts.google.com/?query=Alegreya Google Fonts].
:* [[Fraktur_fonts|Summary of experiences of three Fraktur]]
[[Category:Fonts]]
