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Categorization: Fonts > Text body fonts

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Identifier Caption
accenti Extra accented character macros, designed for Italian.
adobe-euro Metric and map files for the Adobe Euro fonts.
ae Virtual fonts for T1 encoded CMR-fonts.
aeguill Add several kinds of guillemets to the ae fonts.
altfont Alternative font handling in LaTeX.
amiri A classical Arabic typeface, Naskh style.
antp Antykwa Półtawskiego: a Type 1 family of Polish traditional type.
antt Antykwa Toruńska: a Type 1 family of a Polish traditional type.
archaic A collection of archaic fonts.
arev Fonts and LaTeX support files for Arev Sans.
augie Calligraphic font for typesetting handwriting.
auncial Artificial Uncial manuscript book-hand font.
auncial-new Artificial Uncial font and LaTeX support macros.
aurical Calligraphic fonts for use with LaTeX in T1 encoding.
bakoma-fonts Computer Modern and AMS fonts in outline form.
bard Celtic bardic runes font.
bashkirian Bashkirian extension to OT2 fonts.
baskervaldadf Baskervald ADF fonts collection with TeX/LaTeX support.
bengali-omega Bengali in Velthuis transliteration or in UTF-8
bera Bera fonts.
berenisadf Berenis ADF fonts and TeX/LaTeX support.
blackletter A blackletter font.
blacklettert1 T1-encoded versions of Haralambous old German fonts.
boisik A font inspired by Baskerville design.
bold-extra Use bold small caps and typewriter fonts.
brushscr A handwriting script font.
calligra Calligraphic font.
calligra-type1 Type 1 version of Caliigra.
cantarell LaTeX support for the Cantarell font family.
capbas Capital baseball "matrix printer" font collection.
cbgreek-complete Complete set of Greek fonts.
cc-pl Polish extension of Computer Concrete fonts.
charter Charter fonts.
cjk-fonts Chinese/Japanese/Korean fonts.
classico URW Classico type-1 fonts.
cmcyr Computer Modern fonts with cyrillic extensions.
cmcyr-patch A set of Type 1 Cyrillic fonts.
cm-lgc Type 1 CM-based fonts for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.
cm-mf-extra Extra Metafont files for CM.
cmoefont Old English glyphs to go with Computer Modern.
cmpica A Computer Modern Pica variant.
cmtype3 Type 3 outline versions of the CM fonts.
cm-unicode Computer Modern Unicode font family.
comicsans Use Microsoft Comic Sans font.
committee-font A font designed by a committee.
concmath-fonts Concrete mathematics fonts.
concrete Concrete Roman fonts.
context-cmscbf Use Computer Modern bold Caps and Small-caps in ConTeXt.
context-cmttbf Use Computer Modern Typewriter bold font in ConTeXt.
coptic Coptic Fonts.
courier Adobe Type 1 "free" copies of Courier.
courier-scaled Provides a scaled Courier font.
covfonts Make Apostrophic Laboratories's Covington fonts available to TeX and LaTeX
croatian Fonts for Croatian Glagolitic and other Croatian scripts.
csfonts Czech/Slovak-tuned Computer Modern fonts.
csfonts-t1 Czech/Slovak tuned CM fonts in Type 1 format.
cyklop The Cyclop typeface.
cypriot A script which was used on Cyprus for writing Greek.
cypriote A font for ancient Cypriot Greek inscriptions.
dayroman The Day Roman typeface.
dejavu LaTeX support for the fonts DejaVu.
dmfonts Virtual fonts to provide T1 encoding.
droid LaTeX support for the Droid font families.
duerer Computer Duerer fonts.
ecc Sources for the European Concrete fonts.
ega2mf Generate Metafont code for EGA screen fonts.
egothic Early Gothic manuscript book-hand font.
eiad Traditional style Irish fonts.
electrumadf Electrum ADF fonts collection.
epigrafica A Greek and Latin font.
ethiop-t1 Type 1 versions of Amharic fonts.
etruscan Fonts for the Etruscan script.
eurofont Provides a command that prints a euro symbol.
eurosym Metafont and macros for Euro sign.
fc Fonts for African languages.
foekfont The title font of the Mads Føk magazine.
fonts-sipa-arundina DejaVu-compatible Thai fonts.
fonts-tlwg Thai fonts for LaTeX from TLWG.
fpl SC and OsF fonts for URW Palladio L
frcursive French cursive hand fonts.
fundus-pvscript Support for Vanroose handwriting font.
fundus-sueterlin Sütterlin
fundus-va Support for the va fonts in LaTeX documents.
futhark Fonts for the Older Futhark script.
futhorc Anglo-Friesic futhorc alphabet font.
gentium Gentium font and support files.
georgian-stanier A Georgian font.
gfsartemisia A modern Greek font design.
gfsbaskerville A Greek font, from one such by Baskerville.
gfsbodoni A Greek and Latin font based on Bodoni.
gfscomplutum A Greek font with a long history.
gfsdidot A Greek font based on Didot's work.
gfsneohellenic A Greek font in the Neo-Hellenic style.
gfsporson A Greek font, originally from Porson.
gfssolomos A Greek-alphabet font.
gillcm Alternative unslanted italic Computer Modern fonts.
gnu-freefont A Unicode font, with rather wide coverage.
goblin Tolkien's goblin alphabet.
gothic A collection of old German-style fonts.
greek4cbc A Greek font from 394BC.
greek6cbc A Greek font from the sixth century BC.
greektex Fonts for typesetting Greek/English documents.
grtimes Typeset Greek text with Times New Roman Greek.
helvet Load Helvetica, scaled.
hfbright The hfbright fonts.
hge An "Old English" font.
hlatex-fonts A collection of Korean (Hangul) fonts.
humanist Humanist manuscript book-hand font.
huncial Fonts based on the half Uncial manuscript book-hand.
ibycus-babel Use the Ibycus 4 Greek font with Babel
ibygrk Fonts and macros to typeset ancient Greek.
icelandic Icelandic Fonts.
inconsolata A monospaced font, with support files for use with TeX.
indic-type1 Indic Type 1 fonts converted from public Metafont sources
induni-om Omega fonts for characters used in study of Sanskrit.
ipaex IPA (Japanese) fonts.
iwona A two-element sans-serif font.
izhitsa Support for the old Russian font "Izhitsa".
junicode A TrueType font for mediaevalists.
kdgreek Greek fonts and macros.
kerkis Kerkis (Greek) font family.
kurier A two-element sans-serif typeface.
la School handwriting fonts.
lcyw Make Classic Cyrillic CM fonts accessible in LaTeX.
lettergothic The Adobe Type 1 font family Letter GothicType.
levy-font Fonts for typesetting classical greek.
lfb A Greek font with normal and bold variants.
lh Cyrillic fonts that support LaTeX standard encodings.
libris Libris ADF fonts, with LaTeX support.
lineara Linear A script fonts.
linearb Linear B script used in the Bronze Age for Mycenaean Greek.
literaturnaya The Literaturnaya family of fonts.
lxfonts Set of slide fonts based on CM.
malayalam-latex LaTeX for Malayalam.
malvern A sans-serif font family.
mf2pt1 Produce PostScript Type 1 fonts from Metafont source.
mxedruli A pair of Georgian fonts.
ocherokee LaTeX Support for the Cherokee language.
ocr-a Fonts for OCR-A.
ocr-b Fonts for OCR-B.
oesch Font to provide the Österreichische Schulschrift.
oldprsn Fonts old Persian cuneiform script.
oldstandard Old Standard: A Unicode Font for Classical and Medieval Studies.
opensans The Open Sans font family, and LaTeX support.
osmanian Osmanian font for writing Somali.
pacioli Fonts designed by Fra Luca de Pacioli in 1497.
palladam A Tamil font for Macintosh users.
pandora The Pandora font family.
pandora-type1 The Pandora font family.
paratype LaTeX support for free fonts by ParaType.
pcfonts Hebrew fonts for use on DOS PCs.
persian-modern The "Persian Modern" family of fonts.
phoenician Fonts for the Phoenician script in use from about 1600 BC.
plfonts Polish extension to Computer Modern fonts.
pl-mf Polish extension of Computer Modern fonts.
plpsfont Polish extension of CM fonts in Type 1 format.
poltawski Antykwa Półtawskiego Family of Fonts.
poorman Raster Chinese and Japanese fonts.
psfonts PostScript fonts for use with TeX and LaTeX.
ptsans PT Sans font and LaTeX support.
ptserif PT Serif font and LaTeX support.
punk Donald Knuth's punk font.
punknova OpenType version of Knuth's Punk font.
pxfonts Palatino-like fonts in support of mathematics.
redis A Hebrew font.
romandeadf Romande ADF fonts and LaTeX support.
rune Two rune fonts.
runic Fonts for Anglo-Saxon futharc script.
rustic Roman Rustic manuscript book-hand font.
sanskrit-t1 Type 1 version of 'skt' fonts for Sanskrit.
sarabian Archaic South Arabian script font.
schwell Calligraphic font for typesetting handwriting in Schwell style.
scyrillic A family of cyrillic fonts.
shavian A Shavian spelling alphabet font.
southarabian A font for an archaic South Arabia script.
soyombo Fonts and a macro for Soyombo under LaTeX.
srune Saxon rune font.
stix OpenType Unicode maths fonts.
syriac A font for Syriac written in Estrangelo.
t1-fraktur A pair of fraktur font families in T1 encoding.
tabfigures Maintain vertical alignment of figures.
tapir A simple geometrical font.
tex-gyre-adventor A font family that extends URW Gothic L.
tex-gyre-bonum A font family that extends URW Bookman L.
tex-gyre-chorus A font that extends URW Chancery L.
tex-gyre-heros A font family that extends URW Nimbus Sans L.
tex-gyre-pagella A font family that extends URW Palladio L.
tex-gyre-schola A font that extends URW Century Schola.
tex-gyre-termes A font family that extends URW Nimbus Roman.
thaifonts-arundina DejaVu-compatible Thai fonts.
thai-rmit A font for Thai script.
thai-usl A font for Thai script.
tolkienfonts Use TTF "Tolkien" fonts from the WWW with PDFTeX.
trajan Fonts from the Trajan column in Rome.
tt2001 Type 1 EC fonts generated by TeXtrace
txgreeks Shape selection for TX fonts Greek letters.
umtypewriter Fonts to typeset with the xgreek package.
universa Herbert Bayer's 'universal' font.
urw-antiqua URW Antiqua condensed font, for use with TeX.
urw-arial URW Arial font pack for use with LaTeX.
urw-base35 URW "Base 35" font pack for LaTeX.
urw-garamond URW Garamond No8 Adobe Type 1 fonts.
urw-grotesq URW Grotesq font pack for LaTeX.
utopia Adobe Utopia fonts.
venturisadf Venturis ADF fonts collection.
verdana Macros and metrics for using Verdana with LaTeX.
vncmr A Vietnamese extension of the cmr fonts.
wadalab Wadalab (Japanese) font packages.
wiki Use Wiki-style markup in a LaTeX document.
wncyr Washington University cyrillic fonts.
wnri Ridgeway's fonts.
xits A Scientific Times-like font with support for mathematical typesetting.
yannisgr Greek fonts by Yannis Haralambous.
yfonts-t1 Old German-style fonts, in Adobe type 1 format.
yfrak Old German Fraktur font.
ygoth Old German Gothic font.
yswab Old German Schwabischer font.
zefonts Virtual fonts to provide T1 encoding from existing fonts.

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Category Description
Document types Everything from books and articles to memos and letters. Also here are documents for specific publishers.
Document types > Books Books.
Document types > Books > Publisher styles Styles for books from specific publishers.
Document types > Books > Others Other packages.
Document types > Articles Articles; research papers.
Document types > Articles > Journal styles Styles for specific journals.
Document types > Articles > Others Others.
Document types > Proceedings Proceedings; a collection of articles.
Document types > Proceedings > Proceedings styles Styles for specific proceedings.
Document types > Proceedings > Others Others.
Document types > Reference manuals Reference manuals.
Document types > Presentations Presentations.
Document types > Overhead slides Overhead slides.
Document types > Theses PhD theses.
Document types > Theses > Thesis styles Styles for specific institutions.
Document types > Theses > Others Others; general theses styles.
Document types > Curriculum Vita Resumes and CV''s.
Document types > Letters Letters and form letters.
Document types > Exams, exercise sets, and answers For examinations and answer keys.
Document types > Other Other.
Document types > Other > Calendars Calendars.
Document types > Other > Syllabus Course syllabus.
Document types > Other > Envelopes Envelopes.
Document types > Other > Labels Labels.
Document types > Other > ID Tags ID Tags.
Document types > Other > Business cards Business Cards.
Document types > Other > Minutes Minutes of meetings.
Document types > Other > Memos Memos.
Document types > Other > Newspapers and newsletters Newspapers, newsletters, and magazines.
Document types > Other > Scripts Stage plays, screenplays, etc.
Document types > Other > Chess Chess games.
Document types > Other > Other games Games besides chess.
Document types > Other > Music Music.
Document types > Other > Posters Posters.
Document types > Other > CD and DVD covers CD and DVD covers.
Document types > Other > Recipes Recipe cards.
Document types > Other > Misc Misc. document types.
Document parts The parts of a document such as the Table of Contents, the Appendix, or the Bibliography.
Document parts > Abstract Adjust the format of your abstract.
Document parts > Table of contents Manipulate the format of your table of contents, or have multiple tables of contents.
Document parts > Preface Manipulate the format of your preface.
Document parts > Chapters and Sections Manipulate the format of your chapters and sections.
Document parts > Appendix Manipulate the format of the appendix, or have multiple appendices.
Document parts > Glossary Manipulate the format of your glossary.
Document parts > Bibliography Display bibliographic materials.
Document parts > Bibliography > Bibliographic styles Styles for specific publishers or journals.
Document parts > Bibliography > Others Others.
Document parts > Index Manipulate the format of your Index.
Document parts > Other Other document parts.
Page-focused Macros aimed at the single page level, or smaller, such as changing margins, page headers, multiple columns, colored text, etc.
Page-focused > Page geometry Margins, portrait vs landscape, etc.
Page-focused > Multiple columns Two or more columns.
Page-focused > Page numbers Pages numbered with roman numerals, etc.
Page-focused > Headers and footers Material on every page.
Page-focused > Footnotes Footnotes.
Page-focused > Floats Material, such as figures, that may float to the top or bottom of a page, or to a following page.
Page-focused > Tables Supplement TeX''s table mechanism.
Page-focused > Captions Captions for figures, tables, or floats.
Page-focused > Citations Citations.
Page-focused > Lists Itemized lists, etc.
Page-focused > Boxes and minipages Material on a page that is boxed.
Page-focused > Verbatim Material shown in the format in which it was typed.
Page-focused > Paragraphs Specialized paragraphs, such as special shapes.
Page-focused > Background Material behind the page''s text.
Page-focused > Color Colored text.
Page-focused > Material in margins Marginal notes, cross references, appearing in the margin.
Page-focused > Poetry Poetry.
Page-focused > Other Other.
Subject-specific typesetting One of the things that sets TeX apart is its facility with typesetting in Mathematics. It is also widely used in other areas, such as Chemistry, Physics, Computer Science, and the Humanities.
Subject-specific typesetting > Mathematics Equations, symbols, etc., from mathematics.
Subject-specific typesetting > Mathematics > Commutative diagrams Commutative diagrams.
Subject-specific typesetting > Mathematics > Equations Equations, sub-equations, etc.
Subject-specific typesetting > Mathematics > Matrices, vectors Matrices and vectors.
Subject-specific typesetting > Mathematics > Mathematical symbols Mathematical symbols, including accents.
Subject-specific typesetting > Mathematics > Theorems Theorem-like environments.
Subject-specific typesetting > Mathematics > Other Other mathematics.
Subject-specific typesetting > Computer science For example, typesetting program listings.
Subject-specific typesetting > Physics Physics.
Subject-specific typesetting > Other natural sciences Chemistry, Biology, Biochemistry, etc.
Subject-specific typesetting > Social sciences Economics, Psycology, etc..
Subject-specific typesetting > Linguistics Linguistics.
Subject-specific typesetting > Other subjects in the humanitites Classics, Philosophy, etc.
Subject-specific typesetting > Music Typeset music.
Subject-specific typesetting > Other Subjects not listed elsewhere.
Documentation Documentation.
Documentation > Tutorial An introduction.
Documentation > Help files A collection of documents.
Documentation > Other Information on some specific part of TeX.
Fonts Access to fonts, free and commercial.
Fonts > Text body fonts Fonts that can be used as the text of a document, perhaps including symbols. These include TeX support files for these fonts.
Fonts > Symbol fonts Fonts containing only special symbols. These include TeX support files for these fonts.
Fonts > Support files Materials allowing the use in TeX of fonts obtained from various vendors. The fonts are not here, just the materials to use them with TeX
Fonts > Font tools Font tools, including utilities.
Fonts > Other Other fonts.
Graphics Using and making graphics in a variety of formats.
Graphics > MetaFont or Metapost Packages to make fonts or graphics derived from Knuth''s MetaFont.
Graphics > Postscript or PDF graphics Make or manipulate graphics using the Postscript or Portable Document Format languages.
Graphics > Tools Programs to manipulate graphics, often to massage graphics created outside TeX.
Graphics > Inside TeX Graphics created inside a TeX document.
Graphics > Other Graphics packages that fit outside the categories above.
Non-English languages Using non-English languages, including automatically adapting the typesetting conventions in those languages.
Non-English languages > French Français.
Non-English languages > German Deutsch.
Non-English languages > Spanish Español.
Non-English languages > Italian Italiano.
Non-English languages > Greek Both ancient and modern Greek.
Non-English languages > Polish Polszczyzna.
Non-English languages > Russian Russian.
Non-English languages > Indian languages Various languages of the subcontinent.
Non-English languages > Chinese, Japanese, Korean Chinese, Japanese, and Korean in TeX.
Non-English languages > Other Other non-English languages.
Output Output for paper, for the web, or for almost any format.
Output > DVI Use Knuth''s device independent format.
Output > PDF, PostScript Use the Portable Document Format, or PostScript.
Output > HTML Output to the web page language HTML.
Output > Other Output to other targets.
Programming in TeX Programming structures and development infrastructure, in TeX.
Programming in TeX > Box manipulation Manipulating TeX''s boxes.
Programming in TeX > Cross references Tricks with references.
Programming in TeX > Date and time Work with dates and times in a variety of formats.
Programming in TeX > Programming structures Constructs for programming, such as control structures.
Programming in TeX > Package management Managing TeX packages.
Programming in TeX > Other Other packages for programming in TeX.
Tools Document creation, management, and manipulation utilities.
Tools > Editors and shells TeX-aware editors and TeX graphical environments.
Tools > Bibliography managers Programs that namage a bibliographic database.
Tools > Bibliographic manipulation Utilities to manipulate bibliographic materials.
Tools > DVI manipulation Manipulate files in Knuth''s device independent output format.
Tools > PDF tools Manipulate material in the PDF format.
Tools > Spell-checkers Check spelling in a variety of languages.
Tools > Document management Create, develop, compile, and manage TeX documents.
Tools > Word counting Count the words in a document.
Tools > Convert formats Convert to and from word-processor formats.
Tools > Other Other tools.
Distributions People have gathered the needed components, so you don''t have to.
Infrastructure Source code to build TeX systems.
Infrastructure > Current systems Source of TeX systems now in wide use.
Infrastructure > Extensions Extensions beyond TeX.
Infrastructure > Hyphenation Hyphenation patterns.
Literate programming Material in the spirit of Knuth''s WEB system.
Other Things that do not fit in other categories.

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