As a previous user of the now defunct Infinality repo I was looking for something similar in Fedora 22 Fedora 24 and came across this useful blog post. In a few quick steps you can have awesome looking fonts in Fedora 23+.
Download and Enable the Repo
dnf install http://rpm.danielrenninghoff.com/infinality/fedora/$(rpm -E %fedora)/noarch/infinality-ultimate-repo-$(rpm -E %fedora)-1.noarch.rpm
Install Infinality Font Packages
dnf install --allowerasing cairo-infinality-ultimate \ fontconfig-infinality-ultimate freetype-infinality-ultimate \ ibfonts-meta-base ibfonts-meta-extended-lt ibfonts-meta-extended
Install Patched Cairo
Due to a bug you’ll also need to install the patched infinality version of cairo-gobject.
dnf install cairo-infinality-ultimate-gobject --allowerasing -y
Install fontconfig-friendly Java (optional)
By default OpenJDK doesn’t respect fontconfig settings, you can also run Daniel Renninghoff’s patched OpenJDK which does.
dnf install --allowerasing java-1.8.0-openjdk-infinality-ultimate-headless
Reboot or log out/into X11 and you should see some great notable visual improvement in browser, terminal and office applications.
I’m using XFCE and also have the following options set:
- Hinting: Slight
- Use Full for lower-resolution screens
- Sub-pixel order: RGB
- DPI -> Custom DPI Setting -> 96
- Default Font: Liberation Sans 11
- xfce4-terminal font: Deja Vu Sans Book Mono 12
ARMv7 Architecture Only
Update: I’ve recently setup a Raspberry Pi 3 with Fedora 23 as an XFCE desktop and noticed that there are no freetype-infinality-ultimate packages available for ARMv7 so the above command will fail.
I’ve built this package from source and have it available for ARM users if needed
wget http://funcamp.net/w/freetype-infinality-ultimate-2.5.4-28.1.armv7hl.rpm rpm -ivh freetype-infinality-ultimate-2.5.4-28.1.armv7hl.rpm
You’ll want this installed and then you can apply the other rpms above on ARMv7 using the noarch packages.
Issues
There is currently an RPM dependency issue with cairo-gobject and this repo, I’ve filed a Github issue about it.
