infinality-bundle: good looking fonts made (even) easier

bohoomil · 2015-02-28 00:31:10

@ggg377 Cantarell (especially the bold variant) doesn't look nice anywhere, IMO. Check out a different font for the UI (for example, Droid Sans 9 is simpler and usually looks better):

The snippet in fonts.conf is no longer needed for anything and will be removed soon.

ggg377 · 2015-02-28 09:54:58

@bohoomil I changed it and it does look nicer now.

Last edited by ggg377 (2015-02-28 18:23:51)

prokonsole · 2015-03-01 03:41:55

Hello,

Followed the instructions in the first post of this thread and when I got to import key, I got this:

# pacman-key -r 962DDE58
gpg: connecting dirmngr at '/root/.gnupg/S.dirmngr' failed: IPC connect call failed
gpg: keyserver receive failed: No dirmngr
==> ERROR: Remote key not fetched correctly from keyserver.

I have installed the infinaity bundle before on an arch install but I haven't seen this error before.

Here is pacman.conf as well.

I cut and pasted the instructions so am confident the entries are correct.

[infinality-bundle]
Server = http://bohoomil.com/repo/$arch

[infinality-bundle-multilib]
Server = http://bohoomil.com/repo/multilib/$arch

[infinality-bundle-fonts]
Server = http://bohoomil.com/repo/fonts

Maybe it was bad timing?

edit: forgot to install and configure haveged - this is bound to fix things,eh?
second edit
installed haveged
started haveged
enable haveged

issued the command
pacman-key --init

re-issued the command

pacman-key -r 962DDE58

and got this

# pacman-key -r 962DDE58
gpg: connecting dirmngr at '/root/.gnupg/S.dirmngr' failed: IPC connect call failed
gpg: keyserver receive failed: No dirmngr
==> ERROR: Remote key not fetched correctly from keyserver.

Anything else, I can do?

Hugh

Last edited by prokonsole (2015-03-01 04:09:46)

runical · 2015-03-01 13:57:27

I remember having a similar problem. See these links:

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/42798
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 9#p1501589
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=190380

prokonsole · 2015-03-01 20:03:06

runical wrote:

I remember having a similar problem. See these links:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/42798
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 9#p1501589
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=190380

Good morning,

Thanks for the links. I can only read them at present - not in a position to physically try any of the methods.

Thank you so much,

Hugh

prokonsole · 2015-03-01 23:15:43

I decided on this method:

# rm -R /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/
# rm -R /root/.gnupg/  # only if the directory exists
# gpg --refresh-keys
# pacman-key --init && pacman-key --populate
# pacman-key --refresh-keys

and can report success with importing bohoomil's key

Thanks again,

Hugh

Keisha · 2015-03-02 00:13:06

@bohoomil: sent you an email via the forum's email facility a couple nights ago, did you receive it?

bohoomil · 2015-03-02 03:11:40

@Keisha Yes, thank you: I'll write back ASAP.

bohoomil · 2015-03-11 01:38:02

I added jdk8-openjdk-infinality to the repository. If you decide to install it, please remove the stock jdk8-openjdk first. Besides, don't forget to add

export _JAVA_OPTIONS='-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=lcd_hrgb -Dswing.aatext=true'

to your .profile.

I tested it with a bunch of applications, including Netbeans and Blue, and it seems everything is working pretty fine.

I hope you'll find it useful.

Thanks.

Šaran · 2015-03-11 13:48:40

Finaly good-looking Netbeans. Huge thanks bohoomil!

jakub · 2015-03-11 13:55:57

Šaran wrote:

Finaly good-looking Netbeans. Huge thanks bohoomil!

Could you provide screenshot?

bohoomil · 2015-03-11 14:20:58

@Šaran Great! Thank you for the feedback.

@jakub There's one on my G+ profile.

Update note OpenJDK-Infinality has now a better anti-aliasing support. Please, remove `-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=lcd_hrgb` variable from your Java options as it is not necessary any more (leave only the one for Swing).

Last edited by bohoomil (2015-03-11 14:21:34)

Šaran · 2015-03-11 16:23:02

@jakub
Before (just -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=lcd_hrgb) and after with patched package.
What you can't see on screenshot is that without patches fonts in Netbeans looked like they have
reddish shadow and it was really weird to look at. With infinality patches fonts are little bit more blurred,
but overall appearance is way better without red outlines.

x33a · 2015-03-17 12:54:40

Hi, is anyone experiencing issue with the font rendering used on GitHub? Since today morning, it looks like the following in Firefox:

I have set Firefox's default font to 'Ubuntu'. On inspecting Firefox inspector, the font shows as:

Clean Regular system

Used as: "Clean"

Till yesterday it was working fine. The only package updated today was: t1-urw-fonts-ib

Last edited by x33a (2015-03-17 13:29:53)

bohoomil · 2015-03-17 16:23:22

This is what probably happened:

1. Originally, you had Nimbus Sans L set as a replacement for Helvetica (GitHub uses Helvetica and Helvetica Neue).
2. Then you decided to replace Nimbus Sans L--instead of Helvetica--with Ubuntu Sans. GitHub looked fine.
3. The upstream renamed Nimbus Sans L to Nimbus Sans.
4. GitHub is looking odd.

What you should try doing:

1. Make sure my assumptions make sense:

$ fc-match Helvetica
$ fc-match "Nimbus Sans L"

2. Set your replacement rules properly, i.e. Helvetica => Ubuntu Sans.

What I should do:

Update fontconfig-iu later today. :-)

jakub · 2015-03-17 18:28:59

x33a wrote:

Hi, is anyone experiencing issue with the font rendering used on GitHub? ...
Till yesterday it was working fine. The only package updated today was: t1-urw-fonts-ib

In my case everything is displayed fine (also GitHub site) in Chrome and in Firefox. I also upgraded this package: [2015-03-17 07:09] [ALPM] upgraded t1-urw-fonts-ib (2.4-6 -> 20150122-1)

RibShark · 2015-03-17 21:07:01

The latest version of Java still requires `-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=lcd_hrgb` for fonts in IntelliJ IDEA to render as expected (RGB antialiasing) for me.

With: http://i.imgur.com/ZZjcb1U.png
Without: http://i.imgur.com/82O4gQh.png

Also notice how the window title doesn't use RGB antialiasing. I can't seem to fix that either (it is KWin 5).

bohoomil · 2015-03-17 22:49:38

@RibShark Just a little reminder:

idea.install wrote:

WARNING:
Running IntelliJ IDEA using OpenJDK is officially unsupported
because of possible performance and graphics problems

x33a · 2015-03-18 05:06:02

bohoomil wrote:

This is what probably happened:
1. Originally, you had Nimbus Sans L set as a replacement for Helvetica (GitHub uses Helvetica and Helvetica Neue).
2. Then you decided to replace Nimbus Sans L--instead of Helvetica--with Ubuntu Sans. GitHub looked fine.

The only settings I had changed were, using the free preset and setting the default Firefox font to Ubuntu. But yesterday, even after changing the preset to combi, I was facing the problem.

Today, I upgraded fontconfig-infinality-ultimate, but nothing changed.

Here's the output with combi preset

 $ fc-match Helvetica
NotoSans-Regular.ttf: "Noto Sans" "Regular"
$ fc-match "Nimbus Sans L"
NotoSans-Regular.ttf: "Noto Sans" "Regular"

Then I reset the preset and set it to free again. And now the output is

$ fc-match Helvetica
n019003l.pfb: "Nimbus Sans" "Regular"
$ fc-match "Nimbus Sans L"
NotoSans-Regular.ttf: "Noto Sans" "Regular"

And now Github is working fine

bohoomil · 2015-03-18 05:26:31

This

$ fc-match "Nimbus Sans L"
NotoSans-Regular.ttf: "Noto Sans" "Regular"

is actually invalid because we no longer have 'Nimbus Sans L'. ;-)

x33a · 2015-03-18 05:47:52

So passing invalid options to fc-match just returns the default font?

bohoomil · 2015-03-18 06:42:59

Exactly, that's how it works: for a missing sans typeface, fontconfig will call the default sans alias, starting with the first on the list (60-latin-foo.conf), and so on for other faces. If none is specified, fontconfig will choose randomly one that seems best.

x33a · 2015-03-19 06:22:29

Thanks for the explanation.

elipp · 2015-03-19 19:33:41

Just to let you know, infinality-bundle (freetype2, fontconfig, cairo) seems to mess up LilyPond's ghostscript-driven PostScript to PDF conversion stage. Says /undefinedresult in --glyphshow-- and fails.

bohoomil · 2015-03-19 20:50:24

Do you experience problems with ps to pdf conversion with ps2pdf?

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