Articles tagged fonts

• 22.6.2025 14.6.2025 sailfish os, fonts

  Change default UI fonts on Sailfish OS

  As outlined here.First move aside whatever there is in ~/.config/fontconfig and ~/.local/share/fonts (although these do not exist by default in SFOS). Then:This does two things …
• 15.6.2025 fonts, sailfish os

  Previews for PixelPerfect fonts on Sailfish OS

  Hundreds of previews. Might load slowly.
• 27.12.2023 linux, fonts

  Converting BDF/PCF bitmap fonts to OTB bitmap fonts

  Applications that use Pango (the software) [cannot use good ol’ X bitmap font formats anymore][4].But they still can use the OTB format for bitmap fonts.If your favorite …
• 27.12.2023 16.4.2018 fonts

  TerminusV Variable Width Bitmap Font

  Download here | Browse the Repository Download here | Browse the RepositoryTerminusV (Variable Width) & TerminusC (Fixed Width Condensed), both based on the original Terminus font. Only glyphs for iso8859-1 (a.k …
• 27.4.2018 linux, fonts

  Fonts on Linux, Chapter Three: About Freetype2, Fontconfig and Infinality (RIP)

  Let’s agree on a few things:I strongly recommend to read these resources: - https://gist.github.com/cryzed/e002e7057435f02cc7894b9e748c5671 - https://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html - https://wiki …
• 7.4.2018 linux, fonts

  Fonts on Linux, Chapter Two: Improving freetype rendering

  I have previously shown how to change default and fallback fonts with a user configuration.The results are already very good. Nevertheless, I have adjusted the substitutions a little more …
• 22.1.2018 linux, fonts

  Fonts on Linux, Chapter One: Changing Default and Fallback Fonts with Fontconfig

  I want an easy way to map the default Sans, Sans-Serif and Monospace fonts to fonts of my choice. I have seen posts on the internet where this is achieved …