Firefox: Figuring out rendered FONTS

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Sat Feb 9 17:04:52 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 09:07 -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
> On Saturday 09 February 2008 01:50:42 am Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> >   $ fc-match calibri,tahoma,arial,sans-serif
> 
> Thanks Behdad. I had no idea about fc-match. I'm going to investigate how 
> accurate this is compared to what's happening within Firefox.
> 
> Also...I just found out about:
> /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-aliases-fedora.conf
> 
> There are some font mappings in here...for example, if Arial is requested try 
> this font, or this one or the other. This is also used by fontconfig 
> right? ...complicating more the thing :(

Right.  And fc-match takes that into account.


> Thanks,
> Jorge
>  
> 
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