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The Info pane
What the font's own files say: who made it, its version, its licence, the languages it covers and every style.
Where it is
The right-hand side of the window
What you can do
- At the top: the family's name and chips for what it is: Yours or System, Monospace, Variable, Colour glyphs, how many styles, and anything to look at, such as duplicates.
- Details are read from the font files themselves: kind, version, PostScript and unique names, glyph count, units per em, weight, width, traits and embedding permissions.
- Design and Legal give the designer, the manufacturer, the foundry, the trademark, the copyright and the licence, with their web addresses. Show more opens a long licence.
- Languages lists every language the family can set; Show all lists the rest.
- Styles shows each style in its own face, with its file type and a switch to deactivate that one face.
- On disk says where the files are, how many there are and how big, when they were installed and what they came from.
In this film
- What it isYours or System, variable, how many styles
- DetailsRead from the file: kind, version, glyphs, weight, embedding
- Who made it, and its licence
- The languages it can set
- Every style, in its own face
- Where the files areHow many, how big, and when they were installed
- A system font says soIt belongs to a package: deactivate it, but pacman removes it