While looking for a new Font for my terminals on my Windows machine at work – because seriously, Courier New kinda sucks -, I came across the Anonymous Pro font. Really nice looking and distinct shapes for characters that could be mistaken for one another (O, 0, I, l, 1, etc.). Best of all, it’s [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Fonts’
Anonymous Pro – a fixed width Sans Font for Coders
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Fonts on October 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Autohinting for bold Fonts sucks…
Posted in Linux, Unix, tagged Fonts, Linux on August 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
… so turn it off. It seems my struggle for a really nice, good looking, crispy font configuration is never ending. But hey, guess that’s what I somehow love.
<match target=”font” >
<test compare=”more” name=”weight” >
<const>medium</const>
</test>
<edit mode=”assign” name=”autohint” >
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
in ~/.fonts.conf will do the trick and turn off the Autohinter [...]
Microsoft CoreFonts in OpenSuSE 11.0
Posted in Linux, Unix, tagged Fonts, Linux, Microsoft, OpenSuSE, Unix on July 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For w/e reason they are no longer included in the official repositories – I know, I know… There are replacements around, which I use, but for work purposes you unfortunately just need them.
wget http://download.opensuse.org/update/10.3/scripts/fetchmsttfonts.sh
chmod +x ./fetchmsttfonts.sh
./fetchmsttfonts.sh
Done.
So I don’t forget it again…
Posted in KDE, Linux, Unix, tagged Fonts, KDE, Linux, Unix on June 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
… gosh, I always forget what I do to my font configs on my machines.
KDE: Enable Antialiasing/Subpixel hinting RGB/Style Medium
Fontconfig system wide: Replace Helvetica with something readable in .fonts.conf
Link 10-autohint.conf and 10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf
To be never forgotten again for my fonts to look gorgeous.
A simple tweak to make your GTK Fonts look nice in KDE
Posted in KDE, Unix, tagged Fonts, KDE, Unix on March 27, 2008 | 4 Comments »
… at least when using Sidux.
I was quite annoyed yesterday because my KDE fonts looked simply crispy and marvellous, yet the ones in Pidgin and Iceweasel/Firefox (pretty much the only GTK apps I use) looked like shit. gtk-qt-engine does a good job keeping my fonts the same, but there was simply no anti-aliasing going [...]
Font tweaks
Posted in Unix, tagged Fonts, Gnome, KDE, Linux, Unix on September 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to some helpful comment at osnews.com I tried changing my KDE fonts to the excellent Bitstream Vera Sans Fonts with medium Subpixel Hinting enabled and boy… Did that make a difference. Crispy, excellent looking fonts that you can actually read a mile away now. Makes me wonder why no distribution I ever tried [...]
