A fonts configuration file dedicated to a single program

Posted: 2024-07-31 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: , , | 2 Comments

How do you make a program use its own, customized fonts settings? Let’s say, I want to start Viber with fonts configuration that is different from what’s system-wide. The reason is that Viber seems to use an inbuilt font, for which my global hinting settings do not play nice. I also wanted to specify the Noto Emoji (Black and White) font to be used in Viber (my port includes it in the package). Here’s how it’s done. I’m on CRUX 3.7, but the strategy is the same for any Linux distribution.
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Font blocker for Chrome

Posted: 2024-06-30 | Author: | Filed under: network | Tags: , , , , | Leave a comment

I’ve been playing with my fonts settings for a while and I am close to getting nuts. I have almost everything the way I want it, however, some web-pages insist on using their own fonts. Twitter with it’s Chirp font and GitLab with their own font family come to mind. Well, I don’t like it, do I tried to find a solution.
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Webcore fonts

Posted: 2020-02-23 | Author: | Filed under: desktop | Tags: , | Leave a comment

I’ve been using the Webcore fonts available at SBo, since many years and always followed the post-install instructions in the README. However, I decided to post them here, for my own convenience.
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Browser fonts

Posted: 2019-06-30 | Author: | Filed under: misc, network | Tags: | Leave a comment

I have been switching between browsers lately and realised I am really tied to a certain set of fonts. So, for my own future reference here they are.
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