[SOLVED] fc-match displaying wrong font - Font configuration issues

coxe87b · 2020-09-27 12:23:59

Hi, I have searched and found similar issues but so far, none that have helped me out. I am trying to display "Font Awesome 5 Free" icons in my Polybar, but I keep getting "Dropping unmatched character" errors and the icon wont appear in my modules. I have used fc-list to verify that the font is installed ok:

/etc/fonts/conf.d ∮ fc-list | grep -i awesome
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/fa-brands-400.ttf: Font Awesome 5 Brands,Font Awesome 5 Brands Regular:style=Regular
/usr/share/fonts/OTF/Font Awesome 5 Brands-Regular-400.otf: Font Awesome 5 Brands,Font Awesome 5 Brands Regular:style=Regular
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/fontawesome-webfont.ttf: FontAwesome:style=Regular
/usr/share/fonts/OTF/Font Awesome 5 Free-Regular-400.otf: Font Awesome 5 Free,Font Awesome 5 Free Regular:style=Regular
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/fa-solid-900.ttf: Font Awesome 5 Free,Font Awesome 5 Free Solid:style=Solid
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/fa-regular-400.ttf: Font Awesome 5 Free,Font Awesome 5 Free Regular:style=Regular
/usr/share/fonts/OTF/FontAwesome.otf: FontAwesome:style=Regular
/usr/share/fonts/OTF/Font Awesome 5 Free-Solid-900.otf: Font Awesome 5 Free,Font Awesome 5 Free Solid:style=Solid
 /etc/fonts/conf.d ∮

But when I do an fc-match, the result seems to be aliased or something and I can't work out how to correct that. I'm assuming this is the reason why Polybar can't see the font (because fc-match doesn't appear to be able to).

/etc/fonts/conf.d ∮ fc-match Awesome
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"
 /etc/fonts/conf.d ∮
 /etc/fonts/conf.d ∮ fc-match Roboto
Roboto-Regular.ttf: "Roboto" "Regular"
 /etc/fonts/conf.d ∮
 /etc/fonts/conf.d ∮
 /etc/fonts/conf.d ∮ fc-match Siji
siji.bdf: "Siji" "Regular"
 /etc/fonts/conf.d ∮

As you can see, fc-match registers DejaVu Sans when queried about Awesome, but returns the correct results back for Roboto and Siji. I also note that Siji did work in my Polybar, but the icons were a bit small and not visually appealing to me, hence why I want Font Awesome 5 working.

I added in this file as per suggestion from the Wiki here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … emoji_font but it didn't seem to help;
/etc/fonts/conf.d/55-emoji-prepend.conf:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
  <match>
    <test name="prgname">
      <string>polybar</string>
    </test>
    <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="weak">
      <string>Font Awesome 5 Free</string>
    </edit>
  </match>
</fontconfig>

I also followed up with

 fc-cache -f

but it made no difference.

I have followed the directions here: https://github.com/polybar/polybar/wiki … ont-issues and copy-pasted the dropped unicodes from terminal in to gucharmap and it shows the icon there as expected.

Here is my font config directory listing:

 ~ ∮ cd /etc/fonts/conf.d/
 /etc/fonts/conf.d ∮ la
lrwxrwxrwx  44 root 19 Jun 10:54 10-hinting-slight.conf -> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-hinting-slight.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  48 root 19 Jun 10:54 10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf -> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  35 root 27 Sep 21:44 10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf -> ../conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  55 root 29 Jun 19:28 20-unhint-small-dejavu-lgc-sans-mono.conf -> ../conf.avail/20-unhint-small-dejavu-lgc-sans-mono.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  50 root 29 Jun 19:28 20-unhint-small-dejavu-lgc-sans.conf -> ../conf.avail/20-unhint-small-dejavu-lgc-sans.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  51 root 29 Jun 19:28 20-unhint-small-dejavu-lgc-serif.conf -> ../conf.avail/20-unhint-small-dejavu-lgc-serif.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  51 root 29 Jun 19:28 20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans-mono.conf -> ../conf.avail/20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans-mono.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  46 root 29 Jun 19:28 20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans.conf -> ../conf.avail/20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  47 root 29 Jun 19:28 20-unhint-small-dejavu-serif.conf -> ../conf.avail/20-unhint-small-dejavu-serif.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  47 root 19 Jun 10:54 20-unhint-small-vera.conf -> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/20-unhint-small-vera.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  44 root 19 Jun 10:54 30-metric-aliases.conf -> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/30-metric-aliases.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  35 root 19 Sep 10:44 30-win32-aliases.conf -> ../conf.avail/30-win32-aliases.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  38 root 19 Jun 10:54 40-nonlatin.conf -> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/40-nonlatin.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  37 root 19 Jun 10:54 45-generic.conf -> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/45-generic.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  35 root 19 Jun 10:54 45-latin.conf -> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/45-latin.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  31 root 12 Jan  5:32 46-noto-mono.conf -> ../conf.avail/46-noto-mono.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  31 root 12 Jan  5:32 46-noto-sans.conf -> ../conf.avail/46-noto-sans.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  32 root 12 Jan  5:32 46-noto-serif.conf -> ../conf.avail/46-noto-serif.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  39 root 19 Jun 10:54 49-sansserif.conf -> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/49-sansserif.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  34 root 19 Jun 10:54 50-user.conf -> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/50-user.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  35 root 19 Jun 10:54 51-local.conf -> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/51-local.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  35 root 25 Sep 23:50 55-emoji-prepend.conf -> ../conf.avail/55-emoji-prepend.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  38 root 29 Jun 19:28 57-dejavu-sans-mono.conf -> ../conf.avail/57-dejavu-sans-mono.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  33 root 29 Jun 19:28 57-dejavu-sans.conf -> ../conf.avail/57-dejavu-sans.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  34 root 29 Jun 19:28 57-dejavu-serif.conf -> ../conf.avail/57-dejavu-serif.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  42 root 29 Jun 19:28 58-dejavu-lgc-sans-mono.conf -> ../conf.avail/58-dejavu-lgc-sans-mono.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  37 root 29 Jun 19:28 58-dejavu-lgc-sans.conf -> ../conf.avail/58-dejavu-lgc-sans.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  38 root 29 Jun 19:28 58-dejavu-lgc-serif.conf -> ../conf.avail/58-dejavu-lgc-serif.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  37 root 19 Jun 10:54 60-generic.conf -> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/60-generic.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  35 root 19 Jun 10:54 60-latin.conf -> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/60-latin.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  43 root 19 Jun 10:54 65-fonts-persian.conf -> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/65-fonts-persian.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  38 root 19 Jun 10:54 65-nonlatin.conf -> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/65-nonlatin.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  31 root 12 Jan  5:32 66-noto-mono.conf -> ../conf.avail/66-noto-mono.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  31 root 12 Jan  5:32 66-noto-sans.conf -> ../conf.avail/66-noto-sans.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  32 root 12 Jan  5:32 66-noto-serif.conf -> ../conf.avail/66-noto-serif.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  37 root 19 Jun 10:54 69-unifont.conf -> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/69-unifont.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  33 root 16 May 21:20 69-urw-bookman.conf -> ../conf.avail/69-urw-bookman.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  30 root 16 May 21:20 69-urw-c059.conf -> ../conf.avail/69-urw-c059.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  34 root 16 May 21:20 69-urw-d050000l.conf -> ../conf.avail/69-urw-d050000l.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  44 root 16 May 21:20 69-urw-fallback-backwards.conf -> ../conf.avail/69-urw-fallback-backwards.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  43 root 16 May 21:20 69-urw-fallback-generics.conf -> ../conf.avail/69-urw-fallback-generics.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  44 root 16 May 21:20 69-urw-fallback-specifics.conf -> ../conf.avail/69-urw-fallback-specifics.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  32 root 16 May 21:20 69-urw-gothic.conf -> ../conf.avail/69-urw-gothic.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  40 root 16 May 21:20 69-urw-nimbus-mono-ps.conf -> ../conf.avail/69-urw-nimbus-mono-ps.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  38 root 16 May 21:20 69-urw-nimbus-roman.conf -> ../conf.avail/69-urw-nimbus-roman.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  37 root 16 May 21:20 69-urw-nimbus-sans.conf -> ../conf.avail/69-urw-nimbus-sans.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  30 root 16 May 21:20 69-urw-p052.conf -> ../conf.avail/69-urw-p052.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  45 root 16 May 21:20 69-urw-standard-symbols-ps.conf -> ../conf.avail/69-urw-standard-symbols-ps.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  30 root 16 May 21:20 69-urw-z003.conf -> ../conf.avail/69-urw-z003.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  39 root 19 Jun 10:54 80-delicious.conf -> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/80-delicious.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  28 root  8 Jul  1:50 81-ubuntu.conf -> ../conf.avail/81-ubuntu.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  39 root 19 Jun 10:54 90-synthetic.conf -> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/90-synthetic.conf
.rw-r--r-- 967 root 19 Jun 10:54 README
 /etc/fonts/conf.d ∮

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Last edited by coxe87b (2020-10-02 13:15:09)

patrickziegler · 2020-09-27 14:09:11

You need to use the exact name listed by fc-list.

So, for example if you want to use the font at /usr/share/fonts/TTF/fa-brands-400.ttf, you will need to use "Font Awesome 5 Brands,Font Awesome 5 Brands Regular:style=Regular":

$ fc-match "Font Awesome 5 Brands,Font Awesome 5 Brands Regular:style=Regular"
fa-brands-400.ttf: "Font Awesome 5 Brands" "Regular"

Other names may work but if it isn't a perfect match, this isn't guaranteed.

coxe87b · 2020-09-30 13:42:13

Thank you for your reply, and your suggestion lead me to the solution, however it was much simpler...
I'm embarrassed to say that it was a simple missing end-quotation mark that was the cause.

I had:

font-0 = "Font Awesome 5 Brands Regular:style=Regular:size=10;0
font-1 = "Font Awesome 5 Free Regular:style=Regular

Instead of:

font-0 = "Font Awesome 5 Brands Regular:style=Regular:size=10;0"
font-1 = "Font Awesome 5 Free Regular:style=Regular"

in my polybar config file.

Thanks anyway and hopefully that will teach me to double check the syntax before searching elsewhere.

coxe87b · 2020-09-30 13:46:00

I'd still however like to know why fc-match doesn't return the expected result as even:

~ ∮
~ ∮ fc-list | grep -i awesome
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/fa-brands-400.ttf: Font Awesome 5 Brands,Font Awesome 5 Brands Regular:style=Regular
/usr/share/fonts/OTF/Font Awesome 5 Brands-Regular-400.otf: Font Awesome 5 Brands,Font Awesome 5 Brands Regular:style=Regular
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/fontawesome-webfont.ttf: FontAwesome:style=Regular
/usr/share/fonts/OTF/Font Awesome 5 Free-Regular-400.otf: Font Awesome 5 Free,Font Awesome 5 Free Regular:style=Regular
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/fa-solid-900.ttf: Font Awesome 5 Free,Font Awesome 5 Free Solid:style=Solid
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/fa-regular-400.ttf: Font Awesome 5 Free,Font Awesome 5 Free Regular:style=Regular
/usr/share/fonts/OTF/FontAwesome.otf: FontAwesome:style=Regular
/usr/share/fonts/OTF/Font Awesome 5 Free-Solid-900.otf: Font Awesome 5 Free,Font Awesome 5 Free Solid:style=Solid
~ ∮
~ ∮ fc-match Font Awesome 5 Brands,Font Awesome 5 Brands Regular

~ ∮ fc-match Awesome
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"
~ ∮

seth · 2020-09-30 17:41:42

Try

fc-match "Font Awesome 5 Brands"

coxe87b · 2020-10-02 13:14:27

seth wrote:

Try

fc-match "Font Awesome 5 Brands"

Thank you, that combination seems to work. It appears that even though I don't need to enclose other fonts inside quotations, Font Awesome 5 Free [and Brands] seem to only return the correct result when enclosed in quotes.

Marking solved.

seth · 2020-10-02 13:37:13

It's a shell thing, alternatively you'd have to escape the blanks.
The comma separates different name variants for the font

fc-match Font\ Awesome\ 5\ Brands\ Regular

should work as well

coxe87b · 2021-03-16 13:17:04

seth wrote:

It's a shell thing, alternatively you'd have to escape the blanks.
The comma separates different name variants for the font
fc-match Font\ Awesome\ 5\ Brands\ Regular
should work as well

Thank you. Appreciate the insight.

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#1 2020-09-27 12:23:59

[SOLVED] fc-match displaying wrong font - Font configuration issues

#2 2020-09-27 14:09:11

Re: [SOLVED] fc-match displaying wrong font - Font configuration issues

#3 2020-09-30 13:42:13

Re: [SOLVED] fc-match displaying wrong font - Font configuration issues

#4 2020-09-30 13:46:00

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