You do not have to know the exact font names present on a particular Common Desktop Environment platform. Your application might not require an exact font family or name, but will need to use, for example, a monospaced font, a sans serif font, or a serif font. The Adobe\256 13-the minimum set of fonts built into all PostScript printers. For example, Times Roman, Helvetica, and Courier, each in the four style variations, along with the Symbol font, constitute These 16 generic fonts are among the most commonly used in general desktop computing. The four styles of each of the four design variations yield 16 generic font variations. Combining these two design variations yields four generic font designs:Ĭommon examples of each of these four designs (in corresponding order) are:Įach of these designs for text fonts typically come in four styles (combinations of weight and slant): Two of the most common design variations in fonts used to display text are the presence or absence of serifs and the choice between proportional or regularly spaced (monospaced) characters. XLFD font descriptions for Common Desktop Environment fonts look like: -dt-application-* Application FontsĪt least six point sizes are available on all Common Desktop Environment platforms for each font associated with a Standard Font Name: 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, and 24. Motif widgets and the desktop use interface fonts do not change their default fonts. Use the application fonts for output produced by your application. The Common Desktop Environment defines two types of standard fonts: application fonts and interface fonts. Set of fonts on a particular vendor's Common Desktop Environment implementation. It also enables you to make use of the default This eliminates the problem of having to select from a varying set of fonts on different platforms. The standard font names are mapped to different fonts on different Common Desktop Environment platforms, typically using the X font alias mechanism. These comprise a set of X Window System font names you can use for the most common categories of type designs and styles. Only these font names in your application, you can be sure of getting the closest matching font on any Common Desktop Environment-compliant system. Instead, they are aliases that each system vendor maps to the vendor's best available fonts. The standard font names defined by the Common Desktop Environment are guaranteed to be available on all Common Desktop Environment-compliant systems.
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