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I typically hate how “code” fonts look on forums and websites. So I was planning to edit my .fonts.conf to replace whatever font they used with something I did like. So the first two websites I wanted to change were using “monaco” as a first choice. I knew it was a mac font but had never seen it.

Out of curiosity I went looking for it. This was actually harder to find than I thought it would be. I found a direct link to it here, thanks to this list of programmer fonts.

I like how it looks so no need to edit fonts.conf!

Thanks to this post in the Archlinux forums my fonts look much better! I use an LCD monitor as does the poster in that thread. My fonts weren’t horrible before, but if you used Linux you know fonts can be inconsistent at times.

In any case the packages are all from AUR and are as follows: freetype2-cleartype, cairo-cleartype, and libxft-cleartype. If you’ve never used AUR or modified PKGBUILD files I highly suggest you check out the Arch wiki. You cold use Aurbuild or Yaourt to help make getting AUR packages easier.

You will need to modify the PKGBUILD file for cairo-cleartype. Change the package version from 1.2.4 to 1.2.6, then update or comment out the md5sum line.