Linux - Fonts

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On Unix/Linux desktop, there are a rich number of open source projects for font rendering. This post lists some pretty excellent choices. Taking ArchLinux for instance, the installations are presented.

Infinality

Append following repositories to /etc/pacman.conf.

[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

Install infinality fonts

For x86-64

pacman -S infinality-bundle ibfonts-meta-extended infinality-bundle-multilib

For x86-32

pacman -S infinality-bundle ibfonts-meta-extended

Adobe

pacman -S adobe-source-{code,sans,serif}-pro-fonts

Fira

Fira font is dedicated for Firefox operation system (OS).

pacman -S ttf-fira-{mono,sans}

Ubuntu

pacman -S ttf-ubuntu-font-family

Google

Google archives a lot of open source fonts.

pacman -S ttf-google-fonts-git

WenQuanYi

pacman -S wqy-{bitmapfont,microhei,microhei-lite,zenhei}