Croscore Fonts
Croscore Fonts are free and open source high quality fonts from the Chromium OS Project. These fonts are metrically compatible with MS Fonts and have better rendering instructions for FreeType library.
Installation
Packages in the official repositories:
- ttf-croscore - Includes Arimo (sans-serif), Tinos (serif) and Cousine (monospace)
Packages are available in AUR:
- ttf-carlitoAUR - Includes Carlito (matches Microsoft Calibri)
- ttf-caladeaAUR - Includes Caladea (matches Microsoft Cambria)
System-wide Usage
Append following lines to your font configuration file, eg. /etc/fonts/local.conf:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> <fontconfig> <alias> <family>serif</family> <prefer><family>Tinos</family></prefer> </alias> <alias> <family>sans-serif</family> <prefer><family>Arimo</family></prefer> </alias> <alias> <family>sans</family> <prefer><family>Arimo</family></prefer> </alias> <alias> <family>monospace</family> <prefer><family>Cousine</family></prefer> </alias> <match> <test name="family"><string>Arial</string></test> <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong"> <string>Arimo</string> </edit> </match> <match> <test name="family"><string>Helvetica</string></test> <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong"> <string>Arimo</string> </edit> </match> <match> <test name="family"><string>Verdana</string></test> <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong"> <string>Arimo</string> </edit> </match> <match> <test name="family"><string>Tahoma</string></test> <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong"> <string>Arimo</string> </edit> </match> <match> <test name="family"><string>Times New Roman</string></test> <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong"> <string>Tinos</string> </edit> </match> <match> <test name="family"><string>Times</string></test> <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong"> <string>Tinos</string> </edit> </match> <match> <test name="family"><string>Consolas</string></test> <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong"> <string>Cousine</string> </edit> </match> <match> <test name="family"><string>Courier New</string></test> <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong"> <string>Cousine</string> </edit> </match> <match> <test name="family"><string>Calibri</string></test> <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong"> <string>Carlito</string> </edit> </match> <match> <test name="family"><string>Cambria</string></test> <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong"> <string>Caladea</string> </edit> </match> </fontconfig>