Hello everyone,
I've been using Linux for a couple of years but it hasn't been until recently
that I've been paying attention to the font ecosystem so please bare with
me :)
I'm wondering why on KDE & Gnome (and on apps like Firefox) whenever there's a
widget to choose fonts there is always these generic names: Sans & Serif.
With this I don't know which sans-serif font I'm using...or which serif font
I'm using. For example, when I go to the Firefox preferences...for
sans-serif I have "sans-serif" and I'm like "Ok....but WHICH ONE? Is it
Liberation Sans? Dejavu Sans?". This is the confusion.
I'm guessing now: is it like this so you can define system-wide (at fontconfig
level) the typeface you want for sans-serif family? and the serif family?
So, for example, imagine I want to use in all system-apps the "Liberation
Sans" font for all sans-serif requests...I'll then create a rule on my
~/.fonts.conf for that and I wouldn't need to go to each app (or desktop
environment) to specify that I want "Liberation Sans" for sans-serif? I just
need to make sure that I have "Sans" in all my preferences and I can
double-check that by "fc-match Sans" right?
Please help me understand this :)
Thanks in advance,
Jorge