[Fontconfig] What are the possible font family names? Why no "Helvetica" ?

Keith Packard fontconfig@fontconfig.org
Sun, 16 Mar 2003 19:22:30 -0800


Around 20 o'clock on Mar 16, John Ellson wrote:

> What are the possible font family names?

fc-list will show the available font names

> Why is "Helvetica" not matched to a sans-serif font?

it probably should be; your /etc/fonts/fonts.conf file should map
'Helvetica' to 'sans-serif' and then 'sans-serif' to a list of possible 
sans-serif faces.

-keith