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@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ The fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator.
## Index
1. [Features](#features)
1. [Why the name 'foot'?](#why-the-name-foot)
1. [Fonts](#fonts)
1. [Shortcuts](#shortcuts)
1. [Keyboard](#keyboard)
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![wow](doc/sixel-wow.png "Sixel screenshot")
## Why the name 'foot'?
I'm bad at names. Most of my projects usually start out as _foo
something_ (for example, [yambar](https://codeberg.org/dnkl/yambar)
was _f00bar_ for a while).
So why _foot_?
foo terminal -> footerm -> foot
Pretty bad, I know.
As a side note, if you pronounce the _foo_ part of _foot_ the same way
you pronounce _foobar_, then _foot_ sounds a lot like the Swedish word
_fot_, which incidentally means (you guessed it) _foot_.
## Fonts
**foot** supports all fonts that can be loaded by _freetype_,