dotfiles/memo/fontconfig.md

Font packages (involved in fontconfig)

• extra/ttf-sarasa-gothic
• aur/ttf-symbola
• extra/noto-fonts
• extra/noto-fonts-cjk
• extra/noto-fonts-emoji
• extra/ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols
• aur/maplemono-nf-cn

Other fonts (used but not involved in fontconfig)

• Sour Gummy (from Google Fonts)
• Font Awesome 6 Free (extracted from an AUR package which no longer exists)
• extra/ttf-meslo-nerd

Font configuration

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'urn:fontconfig:fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
  <match target="font">
    <edit mode="assign" name="antialias"><bool>true</bool></edit>
    <edit mode="assign" name="hinting"><bool>true</bool></edit>
    <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"><const>hintslight</const></edit>
    <edit mode="assign" name="rgba"><const>none</const></edit>
  </match>

  <!-- For danmuku -->
  <match target="pattern">
    <test name="family">
      <string>Noto Sans CJK SC</string>
    </test>
    <edit name="family" mode="append">
      <string>Symbola</string>
    </edit>
  </match>

  <alias>
    <family>sans-serif</family>
    <prefer>
      <family>Sarasa UI SC</family>
      <family>Sarasa UI J</family>
      <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
      <family>Symbols Nerd Font</family>
    </prefer>
  </alias>

  <alias>
    <family>system-ui</family>
    <prefer>
      <family>Sarasa UI SC</family>
      <family>Sarasa UI J</family>
      <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
      <family>Symbols Nerd Font</family>
    </prefer>
  </alias>

  <alias>
    <family>serif</family>
    <prefer>
      <family>Noto Serif</family>
      <family>Noto Serif CJK SC</family>
      <family>Noto Serif CJK JP</family>
      <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
      <family>Symbols Nerd Font</family>
    </prefer>
  </alias>

  <alias>
    <family>monospace</family>
    <prefer>
      <family>Maple Mono NF CN</family>
      <family>Sarasa Mono SC</family>
      <family>Sarasa Mono J</family>
      <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
      <family>Symbols Nerd Font</family>
    </prefer>
  </alias>
</fontconfig>

Notes

• ~/.fonts/ is deprecated, use ~/.local/share/fonts/ instead.

• ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf will be loaded by /etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf and therefore takes precedence over the rules defined in files starting with a higher number.