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'''Fonts''' on Alpine Linux covers a wide range of fonts for various languages.  If you can't see your language, you need to install the font that has glyphs (little picture) created for it.
'''Fonts''' on Alpine Linux covers a wide range of various languages.  If you can't see your language, you need to install the font that has glyphs (little picture) created for it. The square box called a substitute character or "tofu" that acts as a placeholder for missing a glyph usually with a two byte sequence.  Tofu is a prepared food that is a traditional part of East Asian and Southeast Asian meals. It is often served in a white rectangular appearance.
 
{{Note|The system font directory is located at {{path|/usr/share/fonts}} which is reserved for the Alpine package creators and the package system. The user font location is located in {{path|~/.fonts}} which is the preferred install font location especially from unknown sources.  Fonts have been used as a source of security exploits [https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-4535/product_id-7835/Freetype-Freetype.html (See CVEs)] so to reduce the spread of attack install fonts inside {{path|~/.fonts}}.  The trusted system fonts that Alpine Linux packages typically are from well known sources like corporations like Google, Adobe, open organizations like Xorg or well known font designers or projects licensed as either [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIL_Open_Font_License SIL], GPL, etc.}}


== Installation ==
== Installation ==
   
   
Example how to install the font:
Default internal fb fonts (tty console) or xorg fonts (desktops) are suitable for a default installation. {{Pkg|font-misc-misc}} is installed with Xorg, so fonts for most languages (Japanese, Korean, Latin, Cyrillic) are already covered. Exceptions are Arabic, Persian, Thai, Tamil, etc. according to the Wikipedia Page on languages for article translation.


sudo apk add terminus-font
These selections will cover most languages and are a good fit for most setups: {{cmd|# apk add font-terminus font-inconsolata font-dejavu font-noto font-noto-cjk font-awesome font-noto-extra}}


<code>fc-cache -fv</code> can be used to display the font locations and to update the cache.  The system font directory is located at '''/usr/share/fonts''' which is reserved for the Alpine package creators and the package system. The user font location is located in '''~/.font''' which is the preferred install font location especially from unknown sources.  Fonts have been used as a source of security exploits [https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-4535/product_id-7835/Freetype-Freetype.html (See CVEs)] so to reduce the spread of attack install fonts inside '''~/.font'''.  The trusted system fonts that Alpine LInux packages typically are from well known sources like corporations like Google, Adobe, open organizations like XOrg or well known font designers or projects licensed as either [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIL_Open_Font_License SIL], GPL, etc.
These selections add special support for '''cyrillic languages like Russian and Serbian, etc.''': {{cmd|# apk add font-vollkorn font-misc-cyrillic font-mutt-misc font-screen-cyrillic font-winitzki-cyrillic font-cronyx-cyrillic}}


If you install xorg-server, it will pull font-misc-misc meaning that many popular languages (Japanese, Korean, Latin, Cyrillic) are already covered except for Arabic, Persian, Thai, Tamil, etc from inspecting the Wikipedia Page left column on languages for article translation.
These selections cover special '''Asiatic languages like Japanese, etc.''':{{cmd|# apk add font-terminus font-noto font-noto-thai font-noto-tibetan font-ipa font-sony-misc font-jis-misc}}


The default may be an eyesore so there are alternatives mentioned below.
The following will add some '''partially supported Chinese fonts''':{{cmd|# apk add font-isas-misc}}
 
These selection will cover, in general '''Arabic, Thai, Ethiopic, Hebrew, Romanian, Persian, Korean Hangul, Greek, Persian, Russian/Slavic Cyrillic, Macedonian/Serbian, Armenian, Georgian, Lao, Devanagari, Urdu (Hindustani as in Northern India and Pakistan), Cherokee, Thaana languages support''' for desktop setups: {{cmd|<nowiki># apk add font-terminus font-noto font-noto-extra font-arabic-misc
# apk add font-misc-cyrillic font-mutt-misc font-screen-cyrillic font-winitzki-cyrillic font-cronyx-cyrillic
# apk add font-noto-arabic font-noto-armenian font-noto-cherokee font-noto-devanagari font-noto-ethiopic font-noto-georgian
# apk add font-noto-hebrew font-noto-lao font-noto-malayalam font-noto-tamil font-noto-thaana font-noto-thai
</nowiki>}}


== Configuration ==
== Configuration ==


Some applications do not specify a specific font to use but rather say sans-serif [sans means without as in without tiny lines], serif, monospace [as in proportional square font].  This is where Fontconfig comes into place by substituting the general font type with a specific font that you like.  For package developers, '''/etc/fonts/conf.avail''' contains a fontconfig configuration file. This will be symlinked into '''/etc/fonts/conf.d'''.  See '''/etc/fonts/conf.d/README''' for details about the meaning behind the priority numbers.
=== Changing default font ===
{{Main|Fontconfig}}
 
<Code>fc-cache -fv</code> utility from {{pkg|fontconfig}} package can be used to display the font locations and to update the cache.
 
Some applications do not specify a specific font to use but rather say sans-serif [sans means without as in without tiny lines], serif, monospace [as in proportional square font].  This is where Fontconfig comes into place by substituting the general font type with a specific font that you like.  For package developers, {{path|/etc/fonts/conf.avail}} contains a fontconfig configuration file. This will be symlinked into {{path|/etc/fonts/conf.d}}.  See {{path|/etc/fonts/conf.d/README}} for details about the meaning behind the priority numbers.
 
For regular users, you want to create/edit your personal {{path|~/.fonts.conf}}.  This is in XML and describes which preferred font to use for these general types.  See [https://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html this] for details.
 
Per-user Configuration is made in {{path|~/.fonts.conf}} but it's hard to configure. An easier method is to use the {{path|~/.Xresources}} file.
 
The following will set up for all users, a minimal resource usage for fonts. No antialiasing. No hint, etc:
 
{{cmd|# cat > /home/*/.Xresources << EOF
Xft.antialias: 0
Xft.rgba:      rgb
Xft.autohint:  0
Xft.hinting:  1
Xft.hintstyle: hintslight
EOF
}}
 
=== Changing the console font ===
 
The default font may be too small on high-resolution monitors, e.g. 4K ones. To change the default font, e.g. to the 32px ISO Latin-1 Terminus font:
 
# {{cmd|# apk add {{pkg|font-terminus}}}}
# try out fonts in a virtual console using <code># setfont /usr/share/consolefonts/ter-132n.psf.gz</code>
# edit {{path|/etc/conf.d/consolefont}}, set it to the font you choose, e.g. <code>consolefont="ter-132n.psf.gz"</code>
# enable this using <code># rc-update add consolefont boot</code>
 
=== Changing GRUB font and font size ===
 
The font in the [[Grub|GRUB]] boot screen might also be too small on high-resolution monitors. In order to change the default font and font size in grub, you first need install {{pkg|grub-mkfont}} package:
 
{{cmd|# apk add {{pkg|grub-mkfont}}}}
 
Then you can choose one of the fonts from {{path|/usr/share/fonts}} folder, say {{path|/usr/share/fonts/inconsolata/Inconsolata-Regular.otf}} from the {{pkg|font-inconsolata}} package. Then you can create a grub font with the desired size: {{cmd|# grub-mkfont -s32 /usr/share/fonts/inconsolata/Inconsolata-Regular.otf -o /boot/grub/fonts/inconsolata-32.pf2}}
 
Here we are using size 32 but you can adjust it.  


For regular users, you want to create/edit your personal '''~/.fonts.conf'''.  This is in XML and describes which preferred font to use for these general types.  See [https://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html this] for details.
After creating the font you need to edit {{path|/etc/default/grub}} and add the configuration with the path for your selected font, e.g. {{path| /boot/grub/fonts/inconsolata-32.pf2}}: {{Cat|/etc/default/grub|<nowiki>...
GRUB_FONT=/boot/grub/fonts/inconsolata-32.pf2
...</nowiki>}}


== List of fonts in Alpine Linux ==
Finally you can run {{cmd|# update-grub}}


* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(typeface) Utopia] - font-adobe-utopia-*
and then you can reboot your system.
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noto_fonts Noto] - font-noto-* -- These fonts can cover different glyphs for your language.  If you go to https://www.google.com/get/noto/ , you can try to search for your language to see if it is supported.  If Alpine doesn't have it, you can download it from Google into your '''~/.font''' .
font-noto
font-noto-adlam
font-noto-adlamunjoined
font-noto-arabic
font-noto-armenian
font-noto-avestan
font-noto-bamum
font-noto-bengali
font-noto-buhid
font-noto-carian
font-noto-chakma
font-noto-cherokee
font-noto-cypriot
font-noto-deseret
font-noto-devanagari (Hindi / Sanskrit)
font-noto-emoji
font-noto-ethiopic
font-noto-extra
font-noto-georgian
font-noto-glagolitic
font-noto-gothic
font-noto-gujarati
font-noto-gurmukhi
font-noto-hebrew
font-noto-kannada
font-noto-kayahli
font-noto-khmer
font-noto-lao
font-noto-lisu
font-noto-malayalam
font-noto-mandaic
font-noto-myanmar
font-noto-nko
font-noto-olchiki
font-noto-oldturkic
font-noto-oriya
font-noto-osage
font-noto-osmanya
font-noto-shavian
font-noto-sinhala
font-noto-tamil
font-noto-telugu
font-noto-thaana
font-noto-thai
font-noto-tibetan
font-noto-tifinagh
font-noto-vai
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monospaced_typefaces#/media/File:Terminus_Specimen.png Terminus] - terminus-font -- Monospace font
* [http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/CTAN/systems/win32/bakoma/fonts/fonts.html BaKoMa] font-bakoma-* -- Fonts for TeX typesetting system (for academics in the math and sciences) and TeX editors
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitstream_Speedo_Fonts Bitstream Speedo] - font-bitstream-speedo
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitstream_Vera Bitstream Vera] font-bitstream-*
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitstream_Vera Bera (Bitstream Vera Type 1)] - font-bitstream-type1 -- Use for LaTeX
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(typeface) Ubuntu] - ttf-ubuntu-font-family
* [http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/ Font Awesome] - ttf-font-awesome -- It was used in Twitter Bootstrap.  It is a font representing things and brands as Icons.
* [https://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/ GNU FreeFont] - ttf-freefont -- See link for support for different writing systems/languages
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Unifont GNU Unifont] - unifont -- It contains glyphs of every codepoint
* font-misc-cyrillic -- Cyrillic fonts (Russian/Slavic Style)
* font-screen-cyrillic -- X.org public domain Cyrillic fonts for screen use
* font-misc-ethiopic -- Ethiopic fonts used in Ethiopia and Eritrea
* font-misc-meltho -- For the Syriac language
* font-misc-misc -- Bitmap fonts in PCF format (shows glyphs of many types and installed by default by xorg-server package)
* [https://www.rockbox.org/mail/archive/rockbox-dev-archive-2005-12/0029.shtml ClearlyU fonts] - font-mutt-misc -- Thai, Ethiopic, Hebrew, Romanian, Persian, Korean Hangul, Greek, Persian, Russian/Slavic Cyrillic, Macedonian/Serbian, Armenian, Georgian, Lao, Devanagari, Urdu (Hindustani as in Northern India and Pakistan), Cherokee, Thaana.  See link to changelog for full list of languages supported.
* [https://github.com/lucy/tewi-font tewi font] font-tewi - A tiny bitmap font that contains braille glyphs
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overpass_(typeface) Overpass] - font-overpass
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxi_fonts Luxi fonts] - font-bh-* -- designed by Kris Holmes and Charles Bigelow which bh is refers to the last name
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucida#Lucida_Typewriter_Serif Lucida Typewriter] - font-bh-lucidatypewriter-*
* [https://ipafont.ipa.go.jp/#jp IPA Font] - font-ipa -- A Japanese font
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croscore_fonts Chrome OS core fonts] - font-croscore
* [http://vollkorn-typeface.com/ Vollkorn] - font-vollkorn - A serif font with glyphs for Cyrillic (Russian/Slavic), Greek, Polish, Dutch, Bulgarian, Serbian, and small capitals
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sans Open Sans] - ttf-opensans
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantarell_(typeface) Cantarell] - ttf-cantarell -- Designed for reading and the default GNOME font
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DejaVu_fonts DejaVu] - ttf-dejavu -- A modified Bitstream Vera with more styles and unicode coverage
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Libertine Linux Libertine] - ttf-linux-libertine -- A free alternative to Times New Roman
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts Liberation] ttf-liberation -- A free alternative to Helvetica and Arial
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconsolata Inconsolata] - ttf-inconsolata -- A monospace font designed for terminals and reading source code
* [http://madmalik.github.io/mononoki/ mononoki] - ttf-mononoki -- A font for programming and code review
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid_fonts Droid] - ttf-droid / ttf-droid-nonlatin -- Designed for small screens and was used in older Android
* font-schumacher-misc -- Fixed width fonts by Dale Schumacher
* font-sony-misc -- Japanese Kana fonts by Sony Electronics
* font-daewoo-misc -- JIS (Japanese Industrial Standards) Kanji and Korean Hangul fonts by Daewoo Electronics
* font-cursor-misc -- A standard cursor font
* font-sun-misc -- Cursor and glyph fonts by Sun Microsystems
* font-winitzki-cyrillic -- A Cyrillic (Russian) font by Serge Winitzki designed for proofreading mixed Russian-English text
* font-isas-misc -- Chinese Song Ti style fonts (thinner horizontal lines compared to vertical)
* font-jis-misc -- A Japanese International Standard font
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courier_(typeface)#IBM_Courier IBM Courier] font-ibm-type1
* font-dec-misc -- A Digital Equipment Corporation cursor and session fonts
* font-cronyx-cyrillic -- A Russian font for X11 by Cronyx
* font-arabic-misc -- A bitmap and proportional Arabic font in newspaper style [http://unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/Archives-Old/UML010/0237.html ]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web Core fonts for the Web] msttcorefonts-installer-- for installing proprietary Microsoft fonts like [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Sans Comic Sans] [https://packages.debian.org/sid/ttf-mscorefonts-installer ]
  Andale Mono
  Arial Black
  Arial (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
  Comic Sans MS (Bold)
  Courier New (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
  Georgia (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
  Impact
  Times New Roman (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
  Trebuchet (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
  Verdana (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
  Webdings


== See Also ==
== List of available fonts ==
{{seealso|Emojis}}
Click {{pkg|font-*}} to view the complete list of font packages in package database. Given below is a partial list of font packages.


{|class="wikitable sortable" align="center" style="width:100%; border:1px #0771a6 solid; background:#f9f9f9; text-align:left; border-collapse:collapse;"
|-
!width="20%" |Font 
!width="25%" | Package name
!class="unsortable"| Description
|-
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(typeface) Utopia] || {{pkg|font-adobe-utopia-*}} ||
|-
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noto_fonts Noto]|| {{pkg|font-noto-*}} || These fonts can cover different glyphs for your language.  If you go to https://fonts.google.com/noto , you can try to search for your language to see if it is supported.  If Alpine doesn't have it, you can download it from Google into your {{path|~/.font}} .  As hinted in the introduction, noto comes from '''no to'''fu or gradual elimination of these substitute characters off the web.
|-
|[https://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/ Terminus] || {{pkg|font-terminus}} || Monospace font
|-
|[https://mirrors.ibiblio.org/CTAN/systems/win32/bakoma/fonts/fonts.html BaKoMa] || {{pkg|font-bakoma-*}} || Fonts for TeX typesetting system (for academics in the math and sciences and book writers) and TeX (WYSIWYG) editors
|-
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitstream_Vera Bitstream Vera] ||{{pkg|font-bitstream-*}}||
|-
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitstream_Vera Bera (Bitstream Vera Type 1)] || {{pkg|font-bitstream-type1}} || Use for LaTeX
|-
|[https://fontawesome.com/ Font Awesome] || {{pkg|font-awesome}} || It was used in Twitter Bootstrap.  It is a font representing things and brands as Icons.
|-
| [https://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/ GNU FreeFont] || {{pkg|font-freefont}} || See link for support for different writing systems/languages
|-
| [https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/unifont/ GNU Unifont] || {{pkg|font-unifont}} || It contains glyphs of every codepoint
|-
| ||{{pkg|font-misc-cyrillic}}|| Cyrillic fonts (Russian/Slavic Style)
|-
| ||{{pkg|font-screen-cyrillic}} || X.org public domain Cyrillic fonts for screen use
|-
| || {{pkg|font-misc-ethiopic}} || Ethiopic fonts used in Ethiopia and Eritrea
|-
| || {{pkg|font-misc-misc}} || Bitmap fonts in PCF format (shows glyphs of many types and installed by default by xorg-server package)
|-
| [https://www.rockbox.org/mail/archive/rockbox-dev-archive-2005-12/0029.shtml ClearlyU fonts] || {{pkg|font-mutt-misc}} || Thai, Ethiopic, Hebrew,
Romanian, Persian, Korean Hangul, Greek, Persian, Russian/Slavic Cyrillic, Macedonian/Serbian, Armenian, Georgian, Lao, Devanagari, Urdu (Hindustani as in Northern India and Pakistan), Cherokee, Thaana.  See link to changelog for full list of languages supported.
|-
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overpass_(typeface) Overpass] || {{pkg|font-overpass}}||
|-
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxi_fonts Luxi fonts] || {{pkg|font-bh-*}} || designed by Kris Holmes and Charles Bigelow which bh is refers to the last name
|-
| [https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/IPAfont IPA Font] || {{pkg|font-ipa}} || A Japanese font
|-
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croscore_fonts Chrome OS core fonts] || {{pkg|font-croscore}}||
|-
| [http://vollkorn-typeface.com/ Vollkorn] || {{pkg|font-vollkorn}} || A serif font with glyphs for Cyrillic (Russian/Slavic), Greek, Polish, Dutch, Bulgarian, Serbian, and small capitals
|-
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sans Open Sans] || {{pkg|font-opensans}}||
|-
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantarell_(typeface) Cantarell] || {{pkg|font-cantarell}} || Designed for reading and the default GNOME font
|-
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DejaVu_fonts DejaVu] || {{pkg|font-dejavu}} || A modified Bitstream Vera with more styles and unicode coverage
|-
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Libertine Linux Libertine] || {{pkg|font-linux-libertine}} || A free alternative to Times New Roman
|-
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts Liberation] || {{pkg|font-liberation}} || A free alternative to Helvetica and Arial
|-
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconsolata Inconsolata] || {{pkg|font-inconsolata}} || A monospace font designed for terminals and reading source code
|-
| [https://madmalik.github.io/mononoki/ mononoki] || {{pkg|font-mononoki}} || A font for programming and code review
|-
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid_fonts Droid] || {{pkg|font-droid}} / {{pkg|font-droid-nonlatin}} || Designed for small screens and was used in older Android
|-
| || {{pkg|font-schumacher-misc}} || Fixed width fonts by Dale Schumacher
|-
| || {{pkg|font-sony-misc}} || Japanese Kana fonts by Sony Electronics
|-
| || {{pkg|font-cursor-misc}} || A standard cursor font
|-
| || {{pkg|font-sun-misc}} || Cursor and glyph fonts by Sun Microsystems
|-
| || {{pkg|font-winitzki-cyrillic}} || A Cyrillic (Russian) font by Serge Winitzki designed for proofreading mixed Russian-English text
|-
| || {{pkg|font-isas-misc}} || Chinese Song Ti style fonts (thinner horizontal lines compared to vertical)
|-
| || {{pkg|font-jis-misc}} || A Japanese International Standard font
|-
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courier_(typeface)#IBM_Courier IBM Courier] || {{pkg|font-ibm-type1}} ||
|-
| || {{pkg|font-dec-misc}} || A Digital Equipment Corporation cursor and session fonts
|-
| || {{pkg|font-cronyx-cyrillic}} || A Russian font for X11 by Cronyx
|-
| || {{pkg|font-arabic-misc}} || A bitmap and proportional Arabic font in newspaper style [https://unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/Archives-Old/UML010/0237.html]
|-
|Microsoft Core fonts||{{Pkg|msttcorefonts-installer}} || Non-free proprietary [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web Microsoft Core fonts for the Web]
|}
Due to their [https://web.archive.org/web/20091208063245/http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/eula.htm licensing], non-free fonts like Microsoft Core fonts are not recommended for commercial or open source projects.
== See also ==
* [[Emojis]]
* [[Emojis]]
* [[Fontconfig]]
* [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fonts Fonts - Archwiki]
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Latest revision as of 10:32, 20 March 2025

Fonts on Alpine Linux covers a wide range of various languages. If you can't see your language, you need to install the font that has glyphs (little picture) created for it. The square box called a substitute character or "tofu" that acts as a placeholder for missing a glyph usually with a two byte sequence. Tofu is a prepared food that is a traditional part of East Asian and Southeast Asian meals. It is often served in a white rectangular appearance.

Note: The system font directory is located at /usr/share/fonts which is reserved for the Alpine package creators and the package system. The user font location is located in ~/.fonts which is the preferred install font location especially from unknown sources. Fonts have been used as a source of security exploits (See CVEs) so to reduce the spread of attack install fonts inside ~/.fonts. The trusted system fonts that Alpine Linux packages typically are from well known sources like corporations like Google, Adobe, open organizations like Xorg or well known font designers or projects licensed as either SIL, GPL, etc.

Installation

Default internal fb fonts (tty console) or xorg fonts (desktops) are suitable for a default installation. font-misc-misc is installed with Xorg, so fonts for most languages (Japanese, Korean, Latin, Cyrillic) are already covered. Exceptions are Arabic, Persian, Thai, Tamil, etc. according to the Wikipedia Page on languages for article translation.

These selections will cover most languages and are a good fit for most setups:

# apk add font-terminus font-inconsolata font-dejavu font-noto font-noto-cjk font-awesome font-noto-extra

These selections add special support for cyrillic languages like Russian and Serbian, etc.:

# apk add font-vollkorn font-misc-cyrillic font-mutt-misc font-screen-cyrillic font-winitzki-cyrillic font-cronyx-cyrillic

These selections cover special Asiatic languages like Japanese, etc.:

# apk add font-terminus font-noto font-noto-thai font-noto-tibetan font-ipa font-sony-misc font-jis-misc

The following will add some partially supported Chinese fonts:

# apk add font-isas-misc

These selection will cover, in general Arabic, Thai, Ethiopic, Hebrew, Romanian, Persian, Korean Hangul, Greek, Persian, Russian/Slavic Cyrillic, Macedonian/Serbian, Armenian, Georgian, Lao, Devanagari, Urdu (Hindustani as in Northern India and Pakistan), Cherokee, Thaana languages support for desktop setups:

# apk add font-terminus font-noto font-noto-extra font-arabic-misc # apk add font-misc-cyrillic font-mutt-misc font-screen-cyrillic font-winitzki-cyrillic font-cronyx-cyrillic # apk add font-noto-arabic font-noto-armenian font-noto-cherokee font-noto-devanagari font-noto-ethiopic font-noto-georgian # apk add font-noto-hebrew font-noto-lao font-noto-malayalam font-noto-tamil font-noto-thaana font-noto-thai

Configuration

Changing default font

Main article: Fontconfig

fc-cache -fv utility from fontconfig package can be used to display the font locations and to update the cache.

Some applications do not specify a specific font to use but rather say sans-serif [sans means without as in without tiny lines], serif, monospace [as in proportional square font]. This is where Fontconfig comes into place by substituting the general font type with a specific font that you like. For package developers, /etc/fonts/conf.avail contains a fontconfig configuration file. This will be symlinked into /etc/fonts/conf.d. See /etc/fonts/conf.d/README for details about the meaning behind the priority numbers.

For regular users, you want to create/edit your personal ~/.fonts.conf. This is in XML and describes which preferred font to use for these general types. See this for details.

Per-user Configuration is made in ~/.fonts.conf but it's hard to configure. An easier method is to use the ~/.Xresources file.

The following will set up for all users, a minimal resource usage for fonts. No antialiasing. No hint, etc:

# cat > /home/*/.Xresources << EOF Xft.antialias: 0 Xft.rgba: rgb Xft.autohint: 0 Xft.hinting: 1 Xft.hintstyle: hintslight EOF

Changing the console font

The default font may be too small on high-resolution monitors, e.g. 4K ones. To change the default font, e.g. to the 32px ISO Latin-1 Terminus font:

  1. # apk add font-terminus

  2. try out fonts in a virtual console using # setfont /usr/share/consolefonts/ter-132n.psf.gz
  3. edit /etc/conf.d/consolefont, set it to the font you choose, e.g. consolefont="ter-132n.psf.gz"
  4. enable this using # rc-update add consolefont boot

Changing GRUB font and font size

The font in the GRUB boot screen might also be too small on high-resolution monitors. In order to change the default font and font size in grub, you first need install grub-mkfont package:

# apk add grub-mkfont

Then you can choose one of the fonts from /usr/share/fonts folder, say /usr/share/fonts/inconsolata/Inconsolata-Regular.otf from the font-inconsolata package. Then you can create a grub font with the desired size:

# grub-mkfont -s32 /usr/share/fonts/inconsolata/Inconsolata-Regular.otf -o /boot/grub/fonts/inconsolata-32.pf2

Here we are using size 32 but you can adjust it.

After creating the font you need to edit /etc/default/grub and add the configuration with the path for your selected font, e.g. /boot/grub/fonts/inconsolata-32.pf2:

Contents of /etc/default/grub

... GRUB_FONT=/boot/grub/fonts/inconsolata-32.pf2 ...

Finally you can run

# update-grub

and then you can reboot your system.

List of available fonts

See also: Emojis

Click font-* to view the complete list of font packages in package database. Given below is a partial list of font packages.

Font Package name Description
Utopia font-adobe-utopia-*
Noto font-noto-* These fonts can cover different glyphs for your language. If you go to https://fonts.google.com/noto , you can try to search for your language to see if it is supported. If Alpine doesn't have it, you can download it from Google into your ~/.font . As hinted in the introduction, noto comes from no tofu or gradual elimination of these substitute characters off the web.
Terminus font-terminus Monospace font
BaKoMa font-bakoma-* Fonts for TeX typesetting system (for academics in the math and sciences and book writers) and TeX (WYSIWYG) editors
Bitstream Vera font-bitstream-*
Bera (Bitstream Vera Type 1) font-bitstream-type1 Use for LaTeX
Font Awesome font-awesome It was used in Twitter Bootstrap. It is a font representing things and brands as Icons.
GNU FreeFont font-freefont See link for support for different writing systems/languages
GNU Unifont font-unifont It contains glyphs of every codepoint
font-misc-cyrillic Cyrillic fonts (Russian/Slavic Style)
font-screen-cyrillic X.org public domain Cyrillic fonts for screen use
font-misc-ethiopic Ethiopic fonts used in Ethiopia and Eritrea
font-misc-misc Bitmap fonts in PCF format (shows glyphs of many types and installed by default by xorg-server package)
ClearlyU fonts font-mutt-misc Thai, Ethiopic, Hebrew,

Romanian, Persian, Korean Hangul, Greek, Persian, Russian/Slavic Cyrillic, Macedonian/Serbian, Armenian, Georgian, Lao, Devanagari, Urdu (Hindustani as in Northern India and Pakistan), Cherokee, Thaana. See link to changelog for full list of languages supported.

Overpass font-overpass
Luxi fonts font-bh-* designed by Kris Holmes and Charles Bigelow which bh is refers to the last name
IPA Font font-ipa A Japanese font
Chrome OS core fonts font-croscore
Vollkorn font-vollkorn A serif font with glyphs for Cyrillic (Russian/Slavic), Greek, Polish, Dutch, Bulgarian, Serbian, and small capitals
Open Sans font-opensans
Cantarell font-cantarell Designed for reading and the default GNOME font
DejaVu font-dejavu A modified Bitstream Vera with more styles and unicode coverage
Linux Libertine font-linux-libertine A free alternative to Times New Roman
Liberation font-liberation A free alternative to Helvetica and Arial
Inconsolata font-inconsolata A monospace font designed for terminals and reading source code
mononoki font-mononoki A font for programming and code review
Droid font-droid / font-droid-nonlatin Designed for small screens and was used in older Android
font-schumacher-misc Fixed width fonts by Dale Schumacher
font-sony-misc Japanese Kana fonts by Sony Electronics
font-cursor-misc A standard cursor font
font-sun-misc Cursor and glyph fonts by Sun Microsystems
font-winitzki-cyrillic A Cyrillic (Russian) font by Serge Winitzki designed for proofreading mixed Russian-English text
font-isas-misc Chinese Song Ti style fonts (thinner horizontal lines compared to vertical)
font-jis-misc A Japanese International Standard font
IBM Courier font-ibm-type1
font-dec-misc A Digital Equipment Corporation cursor and session fonts
font-cronyx-cyrillic A Russian font for X11 by Cronyx
font-arabic-misc A bitmap and proportional Arabic font in newspaper style [1]
Microsoft Core fonts msttcorefonts-installer Non-free proprietary Microsoft Core fonts for the Web

Due to their licensing, non-free fonts like Microsoft Core fonts are not recommended for commercial or open source projects.

See also

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