This is the README for the coelacanth package, version 0.005 (2022-09-29). This package provides LaTeX, pdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX support for Coelecanth fonts, designed by Ben Whitmore. Coelacanth is inspired by the classic Centaur type design of Bruce Rogers, described by some as the most beautiful typeface ever designed. It aims to be a professional quality type family for general book typesetting. Currently available in six weights for upright text, but only a single italic font. To install this package on a TDS-compliant TeX system download the file "tex-archive"/install/fonts/coelacanth.tds.zip, where the preferred URL for "tex-archive" is http://mirror.ctan.org. Unzip the archive at the root of an appropriate texmf tree, likely a personal or local tree. If necessary, update the file-name database (e.g., texhash). Update the font-map files by enabling the Map file Coelacanth.map. To use, add \usepackage{coelacanth} to the preamble of your document. Options include: oldstyle,osf old-style figures lining,nf,lf lining figures proportional,p varying-width figures tabular,t fixed-width figures The defaults are oldstyle and proportional. The default weights are regular and bold but other weights can be obtained by using the following options: l light el extra light sb semibold h heavy Available shapes include: sc small caps and, in regular weight only, it italic scit italic small caps Slanted variants are not supported; the italic variant will be automatically substituted. Font encodings supported are OT1, T1, LY1 and TS1. Options scaled= or scale= may be used to adjust fontsizes. The type1 option may be used by xelatex or lualatex users who prefer to use type1 fonts or to avoid fontspec. Commands \oldstylenums{...} and \liningnums{...} are defined to allow for local use of old-style figures or lining figures, respectively. Similarly, \tabularnums{...} and \proportionalnums{...} allow for local use of monospaced or varying-width figures, respectively. The original fonts are available at https://github.com/Fuzzypeg/Coelacanth/tree/master/release and are licensed under the SIL Open Font License, (version 1.1); the text may be found in the doc directory. The type1 versions were created using cfftot1. The support files were created using autoinst and otftotfm (version 2.103) and are licensed under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License. The maintainer of this package is Bob Tennent (rdt at cs.queensu.ca)