gombosg/better_fonts

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Description

Better fonts for Fedora

fontconfig-font-replacements provides free substitutions for popular proprietary fonts from Microsoft and Apple operating systems.

It makes your web browsing more aesthetically pleasing - you won't be seeing DejaVu Sans font on every damn webpage.

GitHub repo link

Installation Instructions

  1. Enable COPR repository: sudo dnf copr enable dawid/better_fonts -y
  2. Install packages: sudo dnf install fontconfig-font-replacements -y
  3. (Optional) Enable subpixel (rgb) antialiasing: sudo dnf install fontconfig-enhanced-defaults -y
  4. Log out and log in again or restart computer to see the effect

Active Releases

The following unofficial repositories are provided as-is by owner of this project. Contact the owner directly for bugs or issues (IE: not bugzilla).

Release Architectures Repo Download Fedora 38 x86_64 (0)* Fedora 38 (0 downloads)

* Total number of packages downloaded in the last seven days.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/gombosg/better_fonts
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Any chance of a Fedora 37 build?

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Hey, yeah… attempted a rebuild but these specfiles are really old now so most builds failed. Looks like I gotta fork the Github repo as well to fix up some stuff with them. Some packages have been successfully built for F37 though so you can try them. Let me know how it works.

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I disabled dawid/better_fonts repo. Then enabled gombosg-better_fonts, and did a “dnf up”.

It updated:

fontconfig-enhanced-defaults
fontconfig-font-replacements
impallari-libre-baskerville-fonts
quoteunquoteapps-courier-prime-fonts

So I’ll use this for a couple of days and see how it goes.

I noticed that there are a few extras from dawid that haven’t been updated for a while, namely:

archivo-black-fonts - fc30
eb-garamond-fonts - fc30
komika-text-fonts - fc34
merriweather-fonts - fc30
merriweather-sans-fonts - fc30
passion-one-fonts - fc35
sorkintype-gelasio-fonts - fc35

Some of them are from F30 since last update. So was not surprised that they didn’t update.

Thanks for doing this man!