Fonts

A number of fonts and font collections are available from XBPS. dejavu-fonts-ttf or xorg-fonts are a good baseline if you're unsure of what to pick. noto-fonts-ttf contains fonts for many languages and scripts. noto-fonts-cjk extends this with fonts for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, and noto-fonts-emoji provides emojis. nerd-fonts provides a number of fonts with special characters like custom icons included.

Fonts not available from XBPS can be manually installed to either /usr/share/fonts (system-wide) or ~/.local/share/fonts (per-user).

To customize font display in your graphical session, you can use configurations provided in /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/. To do so, create a symlink to the relevant .conf file in /etc/fonts/conf.d/, then use xbps-reconfigure(1) to reconfigure the fontconfig package.

For example, to disable use of bitmap fonts:

# ln -s /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps-except-emoji.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/
# xbps-reconfigure -f fontconfig

Use fc-conflist(1) to list which configurations are in effect.