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## Fontconfig
Fontconfig is a library for configuring and customizing font access.
### About Fontconfig
Fontconfig can:
* discover new fonts when installed automatically, removing a common source of configuration problems.
* perform font name substitution, so that appropriate alternative fonts can be selected if fonts are missing.
* identify the set of fonts required to completely cover a set of languages.
* have GUI configuration tools built as it uses an XML-based configuration file (though with autodiscovery, we believe this need is minimized).
* efficiently and quickly find the fonts you need among the set of fonts you have installed, even if you have installed thousands of fonts, while minimzing memory usage.
* be used in concert with the X Render Extension and [[FreeType|FreeType]] to implement high quality, anti-aliased and subpixel rendered text on a display.
Fontconfig does not:
* render the fonts themselves (this is left to [[FreeType|FreeType]] or other rendering mechanisms)
* depend on the X Window System in any fashion, so that printer only applications do not have such dependencies
### Releases
* The current stable series is 2.10.0. All releases are available in the [[release|http://fontconfig.org/release]] directory.
### Documentation
* [[FontConfig User Documentation|http://fontconfig.org/fontconfig-user.html]]
* [[FontConfig Developer Documentation|http://fontconfig.org/fontconfig-devel/]]
* [[About Fontconfig|Software/fontconfig/About]]
* [[Fontconfig To Do List|Software/fontconfig/ToDo]]
### Git Access
The fontconfig [[git repository|http://cgit.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/]] is hosted at freedesktop.org.
### Mailing Lists
The [[Fontconfig mailing list|http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig]] is used for all fontconfig related mail.
### Web fonts
Microsoft has made the [[common web fonts|http://fontconfig.org/webfonts]] available free of charge; please read the license before downloading them.
Redhat has made [[free fonts|https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/]] (GPL+exception) available: _Sans_ (a substitute for Arial, Albany, Helvetica, Nimbus Sans L, and Bitstream Vera Sans), _Serif_ (a substitute for Times New Roman, Thorndale, Nimbus Roman, and Bitstream Vera Serif) and _Mono_ (a substitute for Courier New, Cumberland, Courier, Nimbus Mono L, and Bitstream Vera Sans Mono).
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