Fonts on Linux, Chapter Three: About Freetype2, Fontconfig and Infinality (RIP)
Let's agree on a few things: the original infinality patched freetype packages are outdated and cannot ne used anymore at least 50% of what infinality did to improve the looks is about sane defaults, a careful configuration and installing the right fonts according to this one will need at least fre...
TerminusV Variable Width Bitmap Font
Download here | Browse the Repository TerminusV (Variable Width) & TerminusC (Fixed Width Condensed), both based on the original Terminus font. So far, only iso8859-1 (usually called western) is implemented, and only three rather small sizes (10, 11 and 12 pixels high). Comparison to the regular...
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 now, and went through all files in /etc/fonts/conf.dto see what is what and if I can delete some, and uninstall...
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 by editing $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf: <!-- Generic name aliasing --> <alias> <family>sans-serif<...