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WMF currently only publishes a list of available fonts on [meta:SVG fonts](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SVG_fonts) (and https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/fc-list), without any mention of the order of font selection for generic families `sans-serif` ("Sans") and `serif` ("Serif"). Since those two generic families, sans especially, are in fact the most commonly used by default, WMF should publish the said lists. They can be generated by running `fc-match -a Sans` and `fc-match -a Serif` respectively. (This is especially a problem with CJK languages, as many distributions and even fontconfig's own `nonlatin` file mixes up sans ("Gothic", "Hei"), serif ("Ming"/"Mincho", "Song"/"Sung"), and script/cursive ("Kai") families.)

WMF currently only publishes a list of available fonts on [meta:SVG fonts](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SVG_fonts) (and https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/fc-list), without any mention of the order of font selection for generic families `sans-serif` ("Sans") and `serif` ("Serif"). Since those two generic families, sans especially, are in fact the most commonly used by default, WMF should publish the said lists. They can be generated by running `fc-match -a Sans` and `fc-match -a Serif` respectively. The order problem is especially a problem with CJK languages, as many distributions and even fontconfig's own `nonlatin` file mixes up sans ("Gothic", "Hei"), serif ("Ming"/"Mincho", "Song"/"Sung"), and script/cursive ("Kai") families. So please publish results for stuff like `fc-match -a Sans:lang=zh-cn` too.

WMF currently only publishes a list of available fonts on [meta:SVG fonts](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SVG_fonts) (and https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/fc-list), without any mention of the order of font selection for generic families `sans-serif` ("Sans") and `serif` ("Serif"). Since those two generic families, sans especially, are in fact the most commonly used by default, WMF should publish the said lists. They can be generated by running `fc-match -a Sans` and `fc-match -a Serif` respectively. (This The order problem is especially a problem with CJK languages, as many distributions and even fontconfig's own `nonlatin` file mixes up sans ("Gothic", "Hei"), serif ("Ming"/"Mincho", "Song"/"Sung"), and script/cursive ("Kai") families.) So please publish results for stuff like `fc-match -a Sans:lang=zh-cn` too.