BSD Ports

x11-fonts/andika 6.200 DragonFly

Sans-serif font designed for literacy use

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
OFL11
Categories
x11-fonts
Package size
1253.4 KiB, 3675.7 KiB installed

Description

Andika is a sans-serif font family designed and optimized especially for literacy use. It supports almost the complete range of Unicode characters for these scripts, including a comprehensive range of diacritics and a large set of symbols useful for linguistics and literacy work.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 7.000, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
DragonFlyx11-fonts/andika6.200 behind since 2026-08-24none known-[email protected]-
FreeBSDx11-fonts/andika7.000 newestnone known-[email protected]2026-08-24
MidnightBSDx11-fonts/andika6.101 behind since 2026-08-24no data-[email protected]-
HardenedBSDx11-fonts/andika7.000 newestno data-[email protected]-
GhostBSDx11-fonts/andika7.000 newestno data-[email protected]-

Install

Binary package:

pkg install Andika

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/x11-fonts/andika && make install clean

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

Dependencies

Run dependencies 2
Required by 1

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts
none

Message after installing

To use these fonts, add the following line to the "Files" section of
xorg.conf:

	FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts/Andika/"

Users of older versions of X may additionally have to make sure that
the freetype module is loaded.  Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log for error
messages.  If freetype is required, add the following line to the
"Modules" section of xorg.conf:

	Load "freetype"