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# Salut Fonts
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2022-04-14 18:49:05 +02:00
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This is a family of manually drawn bitmap fonts.
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Source files are in BDF format, which is simple and is still supported.
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The mission of the project is to provide high quality multilingual font
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for applications where using of widely available vector fonts
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is impractical or aestetically unacceptable.
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The origin of the name is the word of a latin origin
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with the meaning "hello" or "greeting gesture"
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used in some languages (French, Polish, Romanian).
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## Installation and usage
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On a Linux graphic environment, you can install them with font installer supplied with your DE,
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or manually copy them to `.fonts` in your home directory,
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and then chose the font in system settings.
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However, in many text rendering libraries they cut away BDF support,
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so fonts could not be displayed correctly in some applications.
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## Project structure
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There are several individual fonts in the family. They include:
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- **Salut Sans**, a proportional font for general use.
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- **Salut Mono**, a fixed width (monospaced) font designed for terminals.
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They include several sizes and also bold and italic.
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The monospaced font also include wide (double width) variant.
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