Fonts

Fonts can be installed by copying the appropriate .otf or .ttf file to ~/.fonts.

Working with font-config

• Dereference a font alias with `fc-match`:

[schwarzgerat](0) $ fc-match sans-serif
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"
[schwarzgerat](0) $ 

• What font is used for this character?

#!/bin/sh set -e CHAR="$1" for i in sans serif mono ; do FC_DEBUG=4 pango-view --font=$i -q -t "$CHAR" 2>&1 | \ grep -o 'family: "[^"]\+' | cut -c 10- | tail -n 1 done

Some fonts worth checking out

Inconsolata

• http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
• http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Inconsolata

Consolas

• http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17879

Monaco

• http://www.gringod.com/wp-upload/software/Fonts/Monaco_Linux.ttf