[SOLVED] How to enable Droid Sans font

ArchUserBTW69 · 2022-09-15 18:43:23

So i downloaded the ttf-droid because i heard the Droid Sans font is good, but now how do i use it? preferably in terminal cus i might make a script later.

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V1del · 2022-09-15 18:49:07

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Font_c … figuration for the config file format/location
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Font_c … back_fonts for configuring fallback fonts

if you don't want this globally then look at the documentation of your terminal emulator for how it sets up/configures fonts.

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ArchUserBTW69 · 2022-09-15 18:57:19

V1del wrote:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Font_c … figuration for the config file format/location
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Font_c … back_fonts for configuring fallback fonts
if you don't want this globally then look at the documentation of your terminal emulator for how it sets up/configures fonts.

Im very sorry but i still dont know how to do it after reading the wiki, what am i supposed to put inside the config file?

tucuxi · 2022-09-15 19:06:33

Start by copying the font files into ~/.local/share/fonts.

By the way, in a terminal you typically want to use a monospace font instead of a sans font.

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ArchUserBTW69 · 2022-09-15 19:20:04

tucuxi wrote:

Start by copying the font files into ~/.local/share/fonts.
By the way, in a terminal you typically want to use a monospace font instead of a sans font.

Ok i made the ~/.local/share/fonts and copied everything from /usr/share/fonts to here, not sure if i did it right

tucuxi · 2022-09-15 19:36:22

I would not copy everything from /usr/share/fonts to ~/.local/share/fonts, because those files are owned by pacman packages. You should only put the droid font files into your .local/share/fonts directory. fontconfig should automatically pick up that location. Try fc-list and look for the droid font files in the output.

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ArchUserBTW69 · 2022-09-15 19:38:46

tucuxi wrote:

I would not copy everything from /usr/share/fonts to ~/.local/share/fonts, because those files are owned by pacman packages. You should only put the droid font files into your .local/share/fonts directory. fontconfig should automatically pick up that location. Try fc-list and look for the droid font files in the output.

Oh yes i see it, now how do i activate it?

tucuxi · 2022-09-15 19:39:16

Try fc-list and look for the droid font files in the output.

ArchUserBTW69 · 2022-09-15 19:40:44

tucuxi wrote:

Try fc-list and look for the droid font files in the output.

Yep i see it, how do i activate it?

seth · 2022-09-15 19:42:35

Assuming the OP installed https://archlinux.org/packages/community/any/ttf-droid/ he should copy/move exactly nothing at all.
If he got the font from somewhere else, he should ditch that and use the repo package.

@ArchUserBTW69
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Font_c … ault_fonts has some examples, ignore all the language specific stuff, the second arabic example has a usable pattern for your local font config which should go somewhere into ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/

ArchUserBTW69 · 2022-09-15 19:48:36

seth wrote:

Assuming the OP installed https://archlinux.org/packages/community/any/ttf-droid/ he should copy/move exactly nothing at all.
If he got the font from somewhere else, he should ditch that and use the repo package.
@ArchUserBTW69
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Font_c … ault_fonts has some examples, ignore all the language specific stuff, the second arabic example has a usable pattern for your local font config which should go somewhere into ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/

like this? https://pastebin.com/qj2EbUHw

seth · 2022-09-15 20:12:24

Like do you not intend to use the serif and monospace variants as well?

ArchUserBTW69 · 2022-09-16 13:26:19

seth wrote:

Like do you not intend to use the serif and monospace variants as well?

Sorry had to go sleep last night, i want to use the sans-serif for most of the things and monospace for terminal
so i should just put this https://pastebin.com/qj2EbUHw inside the fonts.d/font.conf and it will automatically start using those two?

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seth · 2022-09-16 13:30:33

What do you think could be the worst outcome if you try?

ArchUserBTW69 · 2022-09-16 13:38:35

seth wrote:

What do you think could be the worst outcome if you try?

Ok i just did that and restarted my pc, and im not sure if anything changed. Anyway to check what current font im using?

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Trilby · 2022-09-16 13:43:49

tucuxi wrote:

By the way, in a terminal you typically want to use a monospace font instead of a sans font.

Droid Sans Mono would be the one used. It's a bit of a semantic issue that monospace fonts are generally categorized differently from sans-serif fonts, but strictly speaking, most monospaced fonts (every one I know) lacks serifs; so "monospace" is mostly a subset of "sans-serif". This is seen in the naming of some such as Droid Sans Mono and DejaVu Sans Mono.

But yes, for the terminal, make sure a monospaced variety of a font is used.

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ArchUserBTW69 · 2022-09-16 13:46:24

Trilby wrote:

tucuxi wrote:
By the way, in a terminal you typically want to use a monospace font instead of a sans font.
Droid Sans Mono would be the one used. It's a bit of a symantic issue that monospace fonts are generally categorized differently from sans-serif fonts, but strictly speaking, most monospaced fonts (every one I know) lacks serifs; so "monospace" is mostly a subset of "sans-serif". This is seen in the naming of some such as Droid Sans Mono and DejaVu Sans Mono.
But yes, for the terminal, make sure a monospaced variety of a font is used.

Nice when i typed fc-match this was the output
DroidSans.ttf: "Droid Sans" "Regular"

Thank you very much!

seth · 2022-09-16 13:47:43

Also check "fc-match monospace" and then please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Edit: too late
Thanks.

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ArchUserBTW69 · 2022-09-16 13:50:22

seth wrote:

Also check "fc-match monospace"

Yep
DroidSansMono.ttf: "Droid Sans Mono" "Regular"

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