TerminusV Variable Width Bitmap Font
Download here | Browse the Repository Download here | Browse the Repository TerminusV (Variable Width) & TerminusC (Fixed Width Condensed), both based on the original Terminus font. Only glyphs for iso8859-1 (a.k.a. Western or Latin-1) are implemented, and only two rather small sizes (9 and 12 p...
Converting BDF/PCF bitmap fonts to OTB bitmap fonts
Applications that use Pango (the software) cannot use good ol' X bitmap font formats anymore. But they still can use the OTB format for bitmap fonts. If your favorite old bitmap font is not available in this format, here's how to convert it. Prepare For once I found the instructions on Fedora's wiki...
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Let's agree on a few things: the original infinality patched freetype packages are outdated and cannot ne used anymore at least 50% of what infinality did to improve the looks is about sane defaults, a careful configuration and installing the right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...
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<...