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I'm setting up an Arch box and I've installed Plasma 5 as my desktop environment. However, monospace fonts are behaving very erratically:

  • Listed in the 'Fonts' prefpane, it displays fine.
  • As part of a terminal emulator, it's fine.
  • Firefox slants them something awful in some cases (see forum), and
  • will completely miss them in other cases (see post).

It's probably worthwhile to note that evaluating (set-default-font "Oxygen Mono") in emacs fails with

Invalid font name: -unknown-Oxygen-Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-15-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1,

suggesting to me that there is some font registration issue. (Note that it's looking for Oxygen Sans…)

How can I achieve sanity and convince these fonts to behave?

example

Additional information from continuing research:

  • $ fc-match mono gives Oxygen-Sans.tff: "Oxygen Sans" "Sans-Book"
  • $ fc-match foo also gives Oxygen-Sans.tff: "Oxygen Sans" "Sans-Book"
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  • @Downvoter, care to explain? – Sean Allred Jul 24 '15 at 5:52
  • Looks like leading zero 0 instead of letter O 0xygen Mono 9? – JosefZ Jul 2 '16 at 23:05
  • Oxygen vs 0xygen – doesn't look like it. – Sean Allred Jul 2 '16 at 23:45
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    I think the problem is that "Oxygen-Sans" has a hyphen in it. – sid-kap Dec 2 '16 at 20:34
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As sid-kap commented, the dash in the font name is breaking Emacs. He describes a way to fix this involving fonttools.

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