User:Meskarune/fontconfig

Setting up fonts so they look nicer.

Packages

Packages to install for nice fonts and configuration.

Configuration and rendering

Fonts

Arch Packages

noto-fonts - base fonts (serif, sans-serif, monospace with bold and italic)
noto-fonts-cjk - support for chinese/japanese/korean
noto-fonts-emoji - support for emoji
noto-fonts-extra - additional variants (condensed, semi-bold, extra-light)

ttf-liberation - Font family with metric compatibility with Arial/Helvetica (sans-serif), Times New Roman (serif), and Courier New (monospace).

AUR Packages

ttf-tahoma^AUR - UI text for programs run under Wine
lohit-fonts^AUR - support for indic characters
ttf-twemoji-color^AUR - color emoji font

Infinality Like Fonts/settings

fonts-meta-base^AUR
fonts-meta-extended-lt^AUR

Favorite Fonts

Inter UI https://rsms.me/inter/ font designed for computer UIs inter-font
Bitter https://www.solmatas.com/bitter/ beautiful slab serif typeface designed for long form reading on computer screens. Supports latin, cyrillic and devanagari character sets and ligatures. otf-bitter^AUR

Directory locations

Fonts are installed in /usr/share/fonts
User installed fonts are in $HOME/.local/share/fonts
Global font configurations in /etc/fonts/
System/package font configurations in /usr/share/fontconfig
User font configuration in $HOME/.config/fontconfig

User Configuration

~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
  <include ignore_missing="yes">conf.d</include>
  <match target="font">
    <edit name="antialias" mode="assign">
      <bool>true</bool>
    </edit>
  </match>
  <match target="font">
    <edit name="rgba" mode="assign">
      <const>rgb</const>
    </edit>
  </match>
  <match target="font">
    <edit name="lcdfilter" mode="assign">
      <const>lcddefault</const>
    </edit>
  </match>
  <match target="font">
    <edit name="hinting" mode="assign">
      <bool>true</bool>
    </edit>
  </match>
  <match target="font">
    <edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign">
      <const>hintfull</const>
    </edit>
  </match>
  <match target="font">
    <edit name="autohint" mode="assign">
      <bool>false</bool>
    </edit>
  </match>
  <match target="pattern">
    <edit name="dpi" mode="assign">
      <double>96</double>
    </edit>
  </match>
</fontconfig>