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Fonts on Free-Unixes

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The font stack is so complex, let's clear that up a bit.

References:

- TTY:
https://github.com/talamus/rw-psf
http://askubuntu.com/questions/173220/ho...ty-console
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/...-a-otf-one
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/...ticle.html
https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq7.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_console
https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=552
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyph_Bitm...ion_Format

- Locale & UTF-8:
http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/X11/input8bit.html
http://michal.kosmulski.org/computing/ar...icode.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-sourc..._typefaces
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20226...re-applied
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/...c-do#87748
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/htm...glmbx.html
http://www.unix.com/unix-for-dummies-que...ocale.html
http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/locale/
http://unifont.org/fontguide/

- Font files:
https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/...phs-1.html
https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/index.html

- Rendering (FreeType):
http://userguide.icu-project.org/layoute...C-Overview
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Advanced_Typography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font_rasterization
https://freddie.witherden.org/pages/font-rasterisation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeType
https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/...phs-5.html
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=33955
https://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/xtc2001/paper/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering
How subpixel rendering works: https://www.grc.com/ctwhat.htm
http://www.osnews.com/story/18166/Interv...-Freetype/
http://behdad.org/text/
https://www.x.org/wiki/guide/client-ecosystem/

- MacOS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonts_on_Macintosh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_(graphics_layer)

- Stack:
https://weirdfellow.wordpress.com/2010/07/25/insanity/
https://weirdfellow.wordpress.com/tag/freetype/
http://www.pango.org/
https://kb.iu.edu/d/aytm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GTK%2...ecture.svg
http://roxlu.com/2014/046/rendering-text...d-freetype
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pango
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarfBuzz
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/HarfBuzz/
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/X_L...escription
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/...fonts#7483
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Font_Server
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/x...c-0.5.html

- Generic Management (Fontconfig):
http://tldp.yolinux.com/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO.html
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/font_configuration
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/...fonts.html
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Fontconfig
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Guide_to_X11/Fonts
http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/fonts/X-...fonts.html
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/x-fonts.html
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fontconfig/
http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxListOfFonts.html
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/...-font-file
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=923075
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xrdb
https://eev.ee/blog/2015/05/20/i-stared-...ack-at-me/

- Tips:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Jav...ment_fonts
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Met...ible_fonts

- Creating fonts:
https://fontforge.github.io/en-US/
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/everything-...onts-free/
https://superdevresources.com/create-your-own-font/
http://www.unifont.org/unicodeprimer/

- Typography:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_typefaces
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-serif
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serif
http://www.happytypings.com/alphabet/
https://www.fonts.com/content/learning/fontology
http://www.noupe.com/essentials/icons-fo...-type.html
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Met...ible_fonts


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Music:
Owen Lowery - Dream On Instrumental
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