friendly reminder from /g/

better-fonts

Better FONTS pasta

have liberation or croscore (and remove noto)

https://github.com/bohoomil/fontconfig-ultimate

copy .conf files to ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.avail/
symlink the list below to ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/

[code]
ls -l .config/fontconfig/conf.d/ | cut -c 36-127

10-base-rendering.conf -> ../conf.avail/10-base-rendering.conf
30-metric-aliases-free.conf -> ../conf.avail/30-metric-aliases-free.conf
37-repl-global-free.conf -> ../conf.avail/37-repl-global-free.conf
37-repl-webfonts.conf -> ../conf.avail/37-repl-webfonts.conf
45-cantarell.conf -> ../conf.avail/45-cantarell.conf
45-dejavu.conf -> ../conf.avail/45-dejavu.conf
45-heuristica.conf -> ../conf.avail/45-heuristica.conf
45-latin-microsoft.conf -> ../conf.avail/45-latin-microsoft.conf
45-latin-misc.conf -> ../conf.avail/45-latin-misc.conf
45-liberation.conf -> ../conf.avail/45-liberation.conf
45-symbola.conf -> ../conf.avail/45-symbola.conf
49-sansserif.conf -> ../conf.avail/49-sansserif.conf
60-latin-free.conf -> ../conf.avail/60-latin-free.conf
65-non-latin-free.conf -> ../conf.avail/65-non-latin-free.conf
66-aliases-wine-free.conf -> ../conf.avail/66-aliases-wine-free.conf
82-no-embedded-bitmaps.conf -> ../conf.avail/82-no-embedded-bitmaps.conf
82-no-force-autohint.conf -> ../conf.avail/82-no-force-autohint.conf
82-no-ttf-as-bitmap.conf -> ../conf.avail/82-no-ttf-as-bitmap.conf
83-yes-bitmaps.conf -> ../conf.avail/83-yes-bitmaps.conf
83-yes-postscript.conf -> ../conf.avail/83-yes-postscript.conf
88-forced-synthetic.conf -> ../conf.avail/88-forced-synthetic.conf
90-non-tt-cantarell.conf -> ../conf.avail/90-non-tt-cantarell.conf
90-non-tt-fonts.conf -> .config/fontconfig/conf.avail/90-non-tt-fonts.conf
90-tt-dejavu.conf -> ../conf.avail/90-tt-dejavu.conf
90-tt-fonts-microsoft.conf -> ../conf.avail/90-tt-fonts-microsoft.conf
90-tt-fonts-misc.conf -> ../conf.avail/90-tt-fonts-misc.conf
90-tt-heuristica.conf -> ../conf.avail/90-tt-heuristica.conf
90-tt-liberation.conf -> ../conf.avail/90-tt-liberation.conf
90-tt-symbola.conf -> ../conf.avail/90-tt-symbola.conf
92-selective-rendering-microsoft.conf -> ../conf.avail/92-selective-rendering-microsoft.conf
92-selective-rendering-misc.conf -> ../conf.avail/92-selective-rendering-misc.conf
93-final-rendering.conf -> ../conf.avail/93-final-rendering.conf
94-no-synthetic.conf -> ../conf.avail/94-no-synthetic.conf
95-reject.conf -> ../conf.avail/95-reject.conf
97-selective-rendering-custom.conf -> ../conf.avail/97-selective-rendering-custom.conf
[/code]

>cantarell is fugg'd
change name="autohint" to false in 90-non-tt-cantarell.conf

>red fonts
test hintmedium and/or lcdlight in 10-base-rendering.conf

source https://github.com/bohoomil/fontconfig-ultimate/issues/191#issuecomment-289799221