Improving fonts in Fedora 15
Update: This procudere works with Fedora 16 too.
Fedora 15, by default ships with very thing fonts, which I find strain my eyes to much. Some of the fonts, like in the Application menu are small, even on my 14-inch laptop. Fixing this is not too difficult.
If you don't see a problem with your fonts in Fedora 15 you can stop here :)
Fedora 15, by default ships with very thing fonts, which I find strain my eyes to much. Some of the fonts, like in the Application menu are small, even on my 14-inch laptop. Fixing this is not too difficult.
If you don't see a problem with your fonts in Fedora 15 you can stop here :)
Gnome Tweak Tool. I recommend that you download the Gnome Tweak Tool. Fire up the terminal, log in to root (Command: su) and type in the following command, and click enter:
yum install gnome-tweak-tool
This will allow you to change fonts, adjust font sizes, scale fonts, and tweak hinting and anti-aliasing. It will also allow to you customize other features on the Gnome 3 desktop.
Depending on you screen and preferences this might be enough. In the end, I really wanted better fonts.
My favorite are Microsoft TrueType fonts which are free to download off the Microsoft website. There is no Fedora Linux package for download, but a file which downloads the fonts and packages them into an RPM was created. To install Microsoft TrueType fonts you have to run a series of commands in the terminal:
su -c "yum install rpm-build ttmkfdir cabextract"
mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES
wget http://fenris02.fedorapeople.org/msttcore-fonts-2.0-4.spec
wget http://fenris02.fedorapeople.org/09-msttcorefonts.conf -O ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/09-msttcorefonts.conf
rpmbuild -bb msttcore-fonts-2.0-4.spec
su -mc "rpm -Uvh ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/msttcore-fonts-2.0-4.noarch.rpm"
su -c "ttmkfdir /usr/share/fonts/msttcore"
su -c "ttmkfdir /usr/share/fonts/msttcore"
fc-cache
Depending on your "ideology", you may or may not want to do this. You can find other font options at FedoraUnity.
Depending on your "ideology", you may or may not want to do this. You can find other font options at FedoraUnity.
I really like Microsoft's TrueType fonts, since it makes your Linux box render fonts similarly to a Windows machine and a Mac. Since, I am not abandoning Microsoft Windows, and also use a MacBook, having familiar looking fonts is easy on the eyes.