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Infinality fonts for retina display
| Operating System | Debian 8 |
| Website | Infinality Website |
| Last Update | 17/02/2014 |
Introduction
Big resolution with small screens is more and more common and we’re facing a problem on fonts visualization. We have a lot of non adapted fonts for retina display, even if most of them are not so bad. The solution is to install additional fonts to replace the default one. One of the best one I’ve seen is Infinality fonts!
Installation
Manual
Clone the git repository:
cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/chenxiaolong/Debian-Packages.git
cd Debian-Packages/
Install the build dependencies. Run the following command and install the packages it lists using apt-get/synaptic/etc.:
aptitude install docbook-to-man libx11-dev x11proto-core-dev libz-dev quilt
cd freetype-infinality/
dpkg-checkbuilddeps
cd ../fontconfig-infinality/
dpkg-checkbuilddeps
Build the packages:
cd ../freetype-infinality/
./build.sh
cd ../fontconfig-infinality/
./build.sh
Install the deb files:
cd ..
sudo dpkg -i freetype-infinality/*.deb fontconfig-infinality/*.deb
With packages
You can grab them directly from this site1:
cd /tmp
wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106654446/infinality_jessie/fontconfig-infinality_1-2_all.deb
wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106654446/infinality_jessie/freetype-infinality_2.4.9-3_all.deb
wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106654446/infinality_jessie/libfreetype-infinality6_2.4.9-3_amd64.deb
dpkg -i *.deb
Or via the ppa http://ppa.launchpad.net/no1wantdthisname/ppa/ubuntu/[^2]
Select your configuration
Select the configuration
> sudo /etc/fonts/infinality/infctl.sh setstyle
Select a style:
1) debug 3) linux 5) osx2 7) win98
2) infinality 4) osx 6) win7 8) winxp
#? 3
Restart your session and you’re done :-)
References
Last updated 17 Feb 2014, 08:15 +0200.