# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT

Fontconfig configuration file ordering

Fontconfig parses files in /etc/fonts/conf.d/ by filename order. The following
conventions are used to attibute the appropriate prefix to new files:

┌────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Prefix │ Description                                                        │
├────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 50     │ User override                                                      │
│ 51     │ Local system overrides                                             │
│ 55-59  │ High priority LGC (Latin Greek Cyrillic) fonts                     │
│        │ (distribution general-purpose default fonts)                       │
│ 60     │ Main LGC font list                                                 │
│ 61-64  │ Low priority LGC fonts                                             │
│ 65-69  │ Fonts with less common encodings, ending with fonts that provide   │
│        │ coverage of exotic unicode blocks at the expense of drawing        │
│        │ quality                                                            │
└────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Fontconfig uses an inverted priority scheme where files with lower-number
prefixes take precedence over files with higher-number prefixes.

It is almost always safe to use high numbers in the prefix range your font
belongs to, if you do not want to perturb distribution defaults.

See also /etc/fonts/conf.d/README

© 2007-2009 Nicolas Mailhot <nim at fedoraproject dot org>
