{"id":264,"date":"2013-07-17T11:46:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T11:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/?p=264"},"modified":"2023-01-15T11:43:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T11:43:10","slug":"improving-the-fonts-in-linux-mint-debian-edition-with-infinality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/2013\/improving-the-fonts-in-linux-mint-debian-edition-with-infinality\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving the fonts in Linux Mint Debian Edition with Infinality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that the fonts in LMDE look a bit different to those in say Ubuntu. This is partly because of Ubuntu's theme, and partly because Debian's font rendering is a little dated. There is a guy over at http:\/\/www.infinality.net\/blog\/ who has made some patches to the font renderer (freetype and fontconfig) which haven't yet been picked up by Debian. I installed these patches and it made quite a difference to some text in Firefox.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/infinality-before+after.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-265\" alt=\"some text from firefox before and after installing infinality\" src=\"http:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/infinality-before+after.png\" width=\"211\" height=\"76\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notice how the text in the upper half has the C and u in \"Currently\" touching, and each letter is quite skinny. While in the lower half of the image which I took after installing infinalty, the letters are better spaced, and a bit denser.<\/p>\n<p>This is how I did it:<\/p>\n<p><code>sudo apt-get install devscripts quilt<br \/>\ncd \/tmp<br \/>\nwget https:\/\/github.com\/chenxiaolong\/Debian-Packages\/archive\/master.zip<br \/>\nunzip master.zip<br \/>\ncd Debian-Packages-master<br \/>\ncd fontconfig-infinality<br \/>\n.\/build.sh<br \/>\ncd ..\/freetype-infinality<br \/>\n.\/build.sh<br \/>\ncd ..<br \/>\nsudo dpkg -i *.deb<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that the fonts in LMDE look a bit different to those in say Ubuntu. This is partly because of Ubuntu's theme, and partly because Debian's font rendering is a little dated. There is a guy over at http:\/\/www.infinality.net\/blog\/ who has made some patches to the font renderer (freetype and fontconfig) which haven't [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}