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Overall looks good and covers a fair number of code points. A distinctive font family with a style which might not appeal to everyone. As with other SIL fonts, the hinting is questionable. Clearly designed with handheld devices and their small screens in mind.įairly distinctive might appeal to people who like narrow fonts. Overall second to Verdana (an MS font) in width. Many styles and covers a lot of code points (about 6,100 for sans).Įxceptionally wide - even condensed is wider than same-height monospace. Recommended as a fallback for many glyphs not covered by Liberation. Adobe's Source Han Sans fonts are included for CJK. Google's font family that aims to support all the world's languages (so, well over 60,000 code points). Can be used as a fallback for some glyphs not in Liberation. Linux Libertine itself is proportional serif only, but the package contains less extensive sans and mono fonts, as well. Very similar to Liberation, covering about 2,700 code points. This is the Gentoo Fonts team recommendation for default Latin fonts. Red Hat's fonts, which are metric-compatible with MS TrueType corefonts, have a decent, modern look. Here are some recommendations regarding well known fonts in Gentoo: If a font doesn't provide a glyph for a given codepoint, the character might be represented by a substitute character (such as a rectangle containing the hexadecimal value of the code point), or by a glyph from a different font (the 'fallback font'), depending on the application. Many fonts don't provide glyphs for every assigned Unicode codepoint, due to the size of Unicode.

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Edit the nf file to include full hinting by default.

The default fontconfig behavior regarding hinting is rather undocumented, but it can be made deterministically sub-optimal by making a system wide default. In the end this entirely depends on person how they like their text. To combat that lcdfilter is to be used with sub-pixel rendering (available for newer fontconfig) but it can blur the characters too much. Uses the fact that LCD matrix has three primaries to effectively triple the resolution of text but can make characters appear not entirely black. Correct hinting makes characters more crisp but since font metrics aren't changed (and arguably should not change) affects how overall the rendered text looks like. Is an attempt to cope with the low pixel count per unit of area of current displays. Is enabled by default and makes fonts less blocky. In the following sections the Anti-aliasing, Hinting and Sub-pixel rendering features are tuned. User $ fc-match Arial Anti-aliasing, hinting, and sub-pixel rendering The list command shows the available fontconfig files, and marks the enabled ones with an asterisk ( *).

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The following subsections explain how to deal with the fontconfig eselect module. For obvious reasons changing system wide configuration requires appropriate permissions. Gentoo ships an eselect module ( eselect fontconfig) that does exactly what was described in generic way - it manages symlinks of files in /etc/fonts/conf.avail/ by adding or removing them from the /etc/fonts/conf.d/ directory. These files are executed in order they are named for this reason their names start with a two digit number with the first digit (tens) indicating what the file affects (called the class). It's customary to symlink necessary files to /etc/fonts/conf.d/. In addition there is the /etc/fonts/conf.avail/ directory that contains various possible configuration files that each cover some aspect of fontconfig. By default it parses /etc/fonts/nf (users should not edit this file!) which sets some sane defaults and usually contains code to also parse /etc/fonts/conf.d/ content.

Changes to fontconfig files will reflect only in applications started after the change! Genericįontconfig uses XML files in the /etc/fonts/ directory to generate its internal configuration.

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