[Fontconfig] What are the possible font family names? Why no "Helvetica" ?

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Mon Mar 17 14:22:30 EST 2003


Around 20 o'clock on Mar 16, John Ellson wrote:

> What are the possible font family names?

fc-list will show the available font names

> Why is "Helvetica" not matched to a sans-serif font?

it probably should be; your /etc/fonts/fonts.conf file should map
'Helvetica' to 'sans-serif' and then 'sans-serif' to a list of possible 
sans-serif faces.

-keith






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