Table 10-1. XLFD font name fields
Field Name Description Example
1 FOUNDRY The name of the organization supplying
the font (some fonts are available
in slightly different form from multiple
vendors).
adobe, bitsteam, xfree86
2 FAMILY_NAME The basic font face name. courier, helvetica
3 WEIGHT_NAME A subjective description of the font
weight.
bold, demibold, normal
4 SLANT A slant code; most commonly i for
italic, r for roman (no slant), or o for
oblique.
i, r, o
5 SETWIDTH_NAME A subjective description of the font
width.
semicondensed, normal,
wide
6 ADD_STYLE_NAME Additional subjective font description
text.
sans, ja
10.4
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You can see the font name for all installed fonts using the xlsfonts command:
$ xlsfonts
-adobe-courier-bold-o-normal--0-0-100-100-m-0-iso10646-1
-adobe-courier-bold-o-normal--0-0-100-100-m-0-iso8859-1
-adobe-courier-bold-o-normal--0-0-100-100-m-0-iso8859-14
...(lines snipped)...
-b&h-luxi serif-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-9
-b&h-luxi serif-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-microsoft-cp1252
-bitstream-bitstream charter-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-standard
-bitstream-bitstream charter-bold-i-normal??”0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1
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