8. Fonts

Use custom fonts; set font tweaks if font display is not clean. KDE requires a logout for the fonts to become active in the session or just import the fonts manually in ‘font management’ after setup.

Copy custom fonts to system

cp fonts /usr/share/fonts

0644 root root /etc/fonts/local.conf

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
  <match target="font">
    <edit name="autohint" mode="assign">
      <bool>false</bool>
    </edit>
    <edit name="hinting" mode="assign">
      <bool>true</bool>
    </edit>
    <edit name="antialias" mode="assign">
      <bool>true</bool>
    </edit>
    <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
      <const>hintslight</const>
    </edit>
    <edit mode="assign" name="rgba">
      <const>rgb</const>
    </edit>
    <edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter">
      <const>lcddefault</const>
    </edit>
  </match>
</fontconfig>

0644 user user ~/.Xresources

Xft.antialias: 1
Xft.hinting: 1
Xft.autohint: 0
Xft.rgba: rgb
Xft.hintstyle: hintslight
Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault

Merge settings, link additional profiles, and update cache

xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
ln -s /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/
ln -s /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/11-lcdfilter-default.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/
fc-cache -f -v

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