Fonts

Every face findfont can reach, rendered by pscat itself. Two families: nine Type3 faces whose glyphs are PostScript programs (lib/fonts/, lib/handscript.ps, lib/typewriter.ps), and a 67-file runtime catalog (fonts/catalog/) of libre outline faces loaded from disk on first use — together they resolve every classic LaserWriter 35 name, plus 40 more display and text families and four international-script faces (Korean, Japanese, Thai). Run pscat --fonts for the complete, current list of names and aliases.

The Type3 library

Original display faces where every glyph is a program, so the letterforms do things outline fonts can't — see Architecture for how Type3 glyph procedures feed the same transform pipeline as everything else. Self-contained files, draw nothing on load, run unchanged in Ghostscript.

/NeonBent glass tube — five widening strokes of overdraw, no alpha anywhere

/MarqueeTheater-sign bulbs, halos, glints, and the occasional burnt-out bulb

/ConstellationLetters as star charts — magnitudes and tints rand-drawn, hairline asterisms

/LapidaryChiseled capitals — shadow, raised face, dark incision, a hairline of sunlight on the arris

/CircuitryCopper PCB runs — solder-mask channel, specular seam, vias at pitch

/StitchworkCross-stitch X's on the 45° aida grid, three passes of floss, a seeded-jitter hand

/ConfettiA thrown handful — paper slips and dots in a six-color party palette, still falling

/HandScriptDynamic handwriting: rand-jittered strokes, so no two letters ever match. The MCP server and pscat handwrite turn a string into a handwritten page

/TypewriterDynamic typing: Courier Prime redrawn at every strike through a ribbon, so one key never lands twice alike. Seeded, so the same page types the same in Ghostscript. lib/typewriter.ps

The standard thirty-five

Every classic LaserWriter name resolves to a metric-compatible libre face: the bundled Liberation faces cover Helvetica/Times/ Courier, TeX Gyre covers Palatino, Bookman, New Century Schoolbook, Avant Garde, and Zapf Chancery, and the URW symbol faces give /Symbol and /ZapfDingbats real glyphs with their proper PLRM encodings.

Bold, italic, and bold-italic cuts ride along for every text family.

The display shelf

38 curated families from the Google Fonts collection (all OFL or Apache 2.0) spanning garalde to arcade, script to blackletter. Drop your own .ttf/.otf into any fonts/catalog/ subdirectory and /<FileStem> findfont finds it — the manifest has the full family/license table.

old-style garalde serif

transitional serif

didone display serif

contemporary text serif

classical Roman capitals

geometric sans

Futura-spirited geometric sans

condensed gothic sans

high-legibility humanist sans

contemporary slab serif

fat-face slab display

collegiate block slab with chamfered numerals — the varsity jersey face

tall condensed athletic gothic — hockey and pro-jersey numbers

modern coding monospace

formal copperplate script

1950s brush script

casual handwriting

flowing pen handwriting

tall condensed poster caps

heavy didone advertising face

inline neon-sign display

art-deco marquee

chromatic urban signage

blackletter fraktur

condensed blackletter

western circus/wanted-poster

horror-movie lettering

8-bit arcade pixels

glowing-terminal mono

worn typewriter

clean typewriter Courier — the outlines behind /Typewriter

sci-fi geometric display

streamlined techno display

stencil serif

comic-book shout

the casual comic sans, done right

carved medieval lettering

felt-tip marker

International scripts

Hangul, kana/kanji, and Thai vastly exceed the 256-slot Encoding array every other face above uses, so these four are "Unicode-mode" instead: show decodes the string as UTF-8 and maps codepoints straight to glyphs via the font's own cmap, skipping Encoding/glyph-name resolution entirely — see Architecture and FONTS.md's "Unicode-mode catalog faces" addendum for the mechanism and its limits (no GPOS/mark shaping yet).

Korean (Hangul + Latin)

Japanese (kana + kanji + Latin)

Thai (+ Latin)

Korean, brush calligraphy

Groovy 60s/70s display

Blobby fat rounded display