progandy / artwiz-fonts-wl

A set of modified artwiz fonts based on artwiz-aleczapka and artwiz-latin1.

Description

A set of modified artwiz fonts (original site) based on artwiz-aleczapka and artwiz-latin1, with:

• Full ISO/IEC 8859-1 support (German, Portuguese, Swedish etc. characters; equivalent to the Basic Latin and Latin-1 Supplement blocks of Unicode)
• Glyph names matching standard Unicode character names,
• A bold variant of each font. (based on artwiz-latin1's bold fonts, but with some fixes; most notably, font bounding box corrections)

Building

Building is rather straightforward:

make

This will create a build directory, and create generated .pcf files there.

If you wish to clean up the build output, you can run make clean.

Installation

Installing is also straightforward:

sudo make install

This will install the fonts to /usr/share/fonts/artwiz-fonts-wl, and create the Xorg config file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-x-fonts.conf to enable them. You may specify values for the DESTDIR, SYSCONFDIR, PREFIX, FONTDIR, or TARGET variables after make in order to override the default paths. (defaults: DESTDIR=/, SYSCONFDIR=/etc, PREFIX=/usr, FONTDIR=$(PREFIX)/share/fonts, TARGET=$(FONTDIR)/artwiz-fonts-wl)

If you use Ubuntu or another distro that disables bitmap fonts in fontconfig by default, you'll have to re-enable them:

rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-debconf-no-bitmaps.conf

On Arch Linux, this file is named /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf, and the file /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf should be linked in its place:

rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf
ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/

Testing Without Installation

Do the following:

• Update the fontconfig cache:

   fc-cache -fv /PATH/TO/artwiz-fonts-wl
  

• Create a new file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-x-fonts.conf with the contents:

   Section "Files"
   	FontPath "/PATH/TO/artwiz-fonts-wl"
   EndSection
  

• Add this to your fontconfig config file (eg. /etc/fonts/local.conf):

   <dir>/PATH/TO/artwiz-fonts-wl:unscaled</dir>
  

• If you use Ubuntu or another distro that disables bitmap fonts in fontconfig by default:

   rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-debconf-no-bitmaps.conf
  

  On Arch Linux, this file is named /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf, and the file /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf should be linked in its place:

   rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf
   ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/
  

• Either restart X, or run:

   xset +fp /PATH/TO/artwiz-fonts-wl
  

• Test it:

   xlsfonts | grep drift
   fc-list | grep drift
  

NOTE: Your installation may vary depending on your distro.

GTK Menus

You might want to use these fonts in GTK apps menus and other widgets. (screenshot)

Edit ~/.gtkrc.mine, and add:

gtk-font-name = "snap 10"

and ensure that ~/.gtkrc-2.0 contains:

include "/home/your_home/.gtkrc.mine"

(your_home is just an example)