Fonts, Colours, and the Rest of the Desktop

Documentation / Contents - Font Scheme

• Overview of the Font Scheme Panel
  • Fonts and Colours Are Separate
  • What Sets It Apart
• The Nine Roles
  • The House Voice
  • The Small and Tiny Sizes
  • Partial Schemes
• Using the Panel
  • The Scheme List
  • The Role Rows
  • Changing One Role
  • The Buttons
    • Apply
    • Save and Save As
    • Defaults and Revert
    • Close
  • Following the Desktop
• Font Descriptors
  • The Leading Dash Is the Whole Rule
  • When the Resolved Font Differs
  • Reading the Nine Samples
• Point Size, DPI, and Why Layout Holds
  • Where DPI Comes From
  • The Panel Fits Itself Before It Draws
  • Changing the Desktop DPI
  • Bitmap Fonts and the Core Path
  • Looking at What a Canonical Application Will Get
• Where Font Schemes Live
  • The Search Path
  • The File
  • Two Names
  • The Built-in Defaults
• Command Line and Keys
  • Command Line
  • Keys
    • On the Main Panel
    • In the Font Dialog
• Fonts, Colours, and the Rest of the Desktop
  • Colour Schemes
  • Monitor Settings and DPI
  • The Scheme Daemon

Other cards

• Copyright Information

Fonts, Colours, and the Rest of the Desktop

Colour Schemes

A font scheme carries no colour and a colour scheme carries no font. They are served on the same channel by the same daemon, and they are deliberately independent: applying a font scheme never disturbs the colour scheme, never advances the colour serial, and the reverse holds too. Any .cyfont mixes with any .cyscheme.

Some colour schemes that shipped before the split still carry font pins inside them. Those are legacy. Where both exist, the font scheme wins, and your own X resources win over both.

Colour schemes have their own book:

cyhelp --book Schemes --topic overview

Monitor Settings and DPI

Point sizes turn into pixels through the display's resolution, so DPI is the setting that changes every face at once. It belongs to monitor settings, not here. See Point Size, DPI, and Why Layout Holds.

The monitor panel is specified and not yet built. When it ships it is cymonitor-prefs, titled "Monitor Settings", with DPI on its own page.

The Scheme Daemon

The daemon that serves both scheme kinds is cyschemed. It is headless; it has no window. It publishes the active schemes on the display and merges the legacy resource block for applications that read their resources once at startup. The Schemes book covers it.

The Other Preference Panels

cyhelp --book Schemes --topic overview       colours and wallpaper
cyhelp --book Sounds --topic overview        desktop sound events
cyhelp --book Audio --topic overview         the audio mixer
cyhelp --book Mouse --topic overview         pointer, trail and cursor
cyhelp --book Localization --topic overview  location, time and locale

The Desktop

cyhelp --book Blueprint --topic overview

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• Overview of the Font Scheme Panel
• The Nine Roles