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Can't believe someone hasn't written this already: fonts. I've used Debian and Arch and had massive trouble a) figuring out what fonts are installed, b) how to

by kough 11y ago

Can't believe someone hasn't written this already: fonts. I've used Debian and Arch and had massive trouble a) figuring out what fonts are installed, b) how to install new fonts, c) getting them to not look like absolute shit. Example case: trying to use Adobe's "Source Code Pro" font with Debian's default terminal, at around 12-14px, on a 2560x1440 screen. I could get it to look good at 10px, and at 18px, but nowhere in between. One of the most frustrating experiences ever. To this day my font size is smaller than I'd like. Another example: any font rendering in a web browser. Generally terrible.

mayhew 11y ago
You can paste the XML on the Debian Fonts wiki page to get nicer (IMO) looking fonts. https://wiki.debian.org/Fonts#Subpixel-hinting_and_Font-smoothing https://wiki.debian.org/Fonts#Subpixel-hinting_and_Font-smoo... Paste it into ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf
edcastro 11y ago
Font is actually pretty much straight forward nowadays with most distros. You just need to enable lcd rgb subpixel rendering and thats it. I use the Croscore set of fonts, the ones based on the Arial/Times/Courier that Google uses on the Chromebook and for me, it looks even better than on Windows or OSX. This is my config: https://github.com/edgard/dotfiles/blob/master/config/fontconfig/fonts.conf https://github.com/edgard/dotfiles/blob/master/config/fontco...
- TheLogothete 11y ago
  Are you serious? "X" is pretty great nowadays, you just need to enable some obscure option. And that's the problem of linux. It's like that for everything.
  - izacus 11y ago
    That option is enabled on most distros by default. Fonts on Ubuntu, elementaryOS, Fedora and other distros look just fine. I'd you are building your own desktop from building blocks in Arch or similar then configuring obscure options is what you chose to do.
audidude 11y ago
FreeType just did some massive improvements to font rendering. It's available now in the Fedora 24 alpha, and its gorgeous.

by kough 11y ago

mayhew 11y ago

You can paste the XML on the Debian Fonts wiki page to get nicer (IMO) looking fonts. https://wiki.debian.org/Fonts#Subpixel-hinting_and_Font-smoothing https://wiki.debian.org/Fonts#Subpixel-hinting_and_Font-smoo... Paste it into ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf

edcastro 11y ago

Font is actually pretty much straight forward nowadays with most distros. You just need to enable lcd rgb subpixel rendering and thats it. I use the Croscore set of fonts, the ones based on the Arial/Times/Courier that Google uses on the Chromebook and for me, it looks even better than on Windows or OSX. This is my config: https://github.com/edgard/dotfiles/blob/master/config/fontconfig/fonts.conf https://github.com/edgard/dotfiles/blob/master/config/fontco...

TheLogothete 11y ago
Are you serious? "X" is pretty great nowadays, you just need to enable some obscure option. And that's the problem of linux. It's like that for everything.
- izacus 11y ago
  That option is enabled on most distros by default. Fonts on Ubuntu, elementaryOS, Fedora and other distros look just fine. I'd you are building your own desktop from building blocks in Arch or similar then configuring obscure options is what you chose to do.

audidude 11y ago

FreeType just did some massive improvements to font rendering. It's available now in the Fedora 24 alpha, and its gorgeous.