Example

The following XLFD name describes a font named charter made by Bitstream that supports the ISO8859-1 standard encoding:

-bitstream-charter-medium-r-normal--8-80-75-75-p-45-iso8859-1

It is medium weight, with no special slanting, and normal width. The font is proportional, with an em-square box of 8 pixels or 8.0 points. The horizontal and vertical resolution are both 75 pixels. The average width of a character is 45 1/10ths pixels or 4.5 pixels.

Parts of this string can be replaced by wildcards. The system uses the first font it finds that matches the parts you have specified.

If all you want is an eight-pixel charter font, you could use:

*-charter-*-*-*-*-8-*