I am writing this file as a guide for using fonts. Fonts have been disproportionately difficult to use because of two reasons:

1. A lot of terminology is coming from the times of Gutenberg, and is also constantly changing and inconsistent.
2. Computing is largely driven by Latin-writing companies and communities, which have no incentive to make sure that all fonts work across all alphabets.

This file is not about the practice of using fonts for UI in computers, it is about using fonts with documents.

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