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pandaxiongmao
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 Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 7:25 pm Post subject: Better Verdana |
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How do I improve the appearance of Verdana font on my Gentoo box? The letter k appears too light on one section (the top leg or whatever since I don't know how to describe it better.)
I already did the font guide and rendering guide, but Verdana still looks better on Vista.
The reason I asked this stupid question is because Gentoo forums uses Verdana as their default font, not Bistream Vera Sans. I attempted to disable Verdana (and replace it with Bitstream Vera Sans), but it failed, and Arial showed up as the replacement for Verdana.  |
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vermaden
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 10:02 pm Post subject: Re: Better Verdana |
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| pandaxiongmao wrote: | | and Arial showed up as the replacement for Verdana. |
You can use ~/.fonts.conf file to swap fonts, also to change their look.
Here is my example:
| Code: | <?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<!-- antialias all fonts -->
<match target="font">
<edit name="antialias" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
</match>
<!-- replace Courier with a better-looking font -->
<match target="pattern" name="family">
<test name="family" qual="any">
<string>Courier</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="assign">
<string>monofur</string>
</edit>
</match>
<!-- replace Helvetica with a better-looking font -->
<match target="pattern" name="family">
<test name="family" qual="any">
<string>Helvetica</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="assign">
<string>sans</string>
</edit>
</match>
<!-- replace Times with a better-looking font -->
<match target="pattern" name="family">
<test name="family" qual="any">
<string>times</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="assign">
<string>sans</string>
</edit>
</match>
<!-- replace Arial with a better-looking font -->
<match target="pattern" name="family">
<test name="family" qual="any">
<string>Arial</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="assign">
<string>sans</string>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig> |
After you make Your changes rebuild font cache with fc-cache -f.
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Dirk.R.Gently
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 12:12 am Post subject: |
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I have corefont and adobe fonts removed from my system. They just don't render that well.
I write all this down. 
Here's the line I use whenever I install my OS:
| Code: | emerge -C font-adobe-100dpi font-adobe-75dpi
emerge --noreplace freetype corefonts freefonts artwiz-fonts sharefonts ttf-bitstream-vera unifont dejavu |
dejavu sans works as a nice font for my desktop and firefox.
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pandaxiongmao
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks for the reply. |
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