Infinality fonts for retina display


Operating System	Debian 8
Website	Infinality Website

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 site^1:

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 :-)