Tag: fonts
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How to display only glyphs actually present in font
Simply use FontMatrix tool
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Disabling bitmap fonts in X
To disable bitmap fonts in X create symbolic link to ../conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf in /usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.d # cd /usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.d# ln -s ../conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf
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Too much antialiasing when rendering fonts with new freetype2
In case there is too much antialiasing there it can be reverted to old behavior by setting environment variable FREETYPE_PROPERTIES to truetype:interpreter-version=35 (port gives suggestion of using “truetype:interpreter-version=35 cff:no-stem-darkening=1 autofitter:warping=1” but for me these extra options make no difference). More about available options can be found in freetype2 documentation (/usr/local/share/doc/freetype2/reference/ft2-toc.html section “Controlling FreeType Modules“, if…
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Programming Fonts
I was for very long time happy with Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, but since lately it doesn’t show that well on my monitor any more. I thought finding nice looking development font would be 5 minutes of browsing, but apparently it was not that easy. I found this website with lot of programming fonts and…