

Some programs (such as Firefox) do not support the fontfeatures tag, so for those replacing the font with another is the only option. $ echo -e "| worksheet |\n| buffering |\n| difficult |\n| finishing |\n| different |\n| efficient |" | pango-view -font="Nimbus Mono PS" /dev/stdin You can test the effectiveness of this with the following command: Some other fonts may also require disabling features such as calt and/or clig. The whole block needs to be duplicated to include extra fonts.ĭisable ligatures for monospaced fonts to avoid ff, fi, ffi, etc.

This prevents letter combinations like "ffi" from being squashed into a single-width character in some monospaced fonts. Some users prefer the sharper rendering that anti-aliasing does not offer:įor when a font does not present itself well in bold and you cannot disable bold fonts in the application ( st for example). Enable anti-aliasing only for bigger fonts 6.5 CJK, but other Latin fonts are preferred.5 Disable ligatures for monospaced fonts.3 Enable anti-aliasing only for bigger fonts.
