The fontspec package provides an automatic and unified interface for loading
fonts in LaTeX. XeTeX and LuaTeX (the latter through the luaotfload package)
allows a direct interface to fonts which may be loaded by their name or filename,
so no manual font installation is required.
This package also provides access to the large number of font features available with OpenType (and other) fonts, including upper and lower case numbers, proportional and monospaced numbers, swash letters, ligature control, and many many others.
See the documentation fontspec.pdf for full information.
To define commands for selecting fonts efficiently through a document:
\newfontfamily\<font switch>{<font name>}[<font options>]
\newfontface \<font switch>{<font name>}[<font options>]
To select the default document fonts:
\setmainfont{<font name>}[<font options>]
\setsansfont{<font name>}[<font options>]
\setmonofont{<font name>}[<font options>]
To define an ad hoc font family individually:
\fontspec{<font name>}[<font options>]
To specify features to be used for every subsequently defined font:
\defaultfontfeatures{<default font options>}
\defaultfontfeatures+{<add to default font options>}
To specify features to be used for specific fonts:
\defaultfontfeatures[<font name or switch>]{<default font options>}
\defaultfontfeatures+[<font name or switch>]{<add to defaults>}
To add features to the font family currently in use:
\addfontfeatures{<font options to add>}
Release versions of fontspec are available from CTAN: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/fontspec
Development and historical versions are available from Github: http://github.com/wspr/fontspec
Please offer suggestions and file bug reports in the issue tracker: http://github.com/wspr/fontspec/issues
If you are running TeX Live, you can update to the latest version of this package by running
tlmgr install fontspec
If you wish to manually download the latest release version from CTAN, get the pre-built TDS package and extract it into your local texmf tree:
http://mirror.ctan.org/install/macros/latex/contrib/fontspec.tds.zip
If you wish to use the latest development version from Github, either use git to obtain the bleeding edge version with
git clone git://github.com/wspr/fontspec.git
(For bleeding edge versions, see the working branch.)
Having obtained the package from Github, install the package code by running
l3build install
This will compile the documentation and install all necessary files in your
local texmf tree. Depending how your TeX distribution is configured
you may then need to update the filename database with texhash.