Salut 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.