Extended readme

README.md

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