installs better than cleartype font rendering on rhel/centos 7

font-el7.sh

#!/usr/bin/bash

set -e

# set up nux-dextop repo to install font packages. skip if this repo had already set up.
# can be done by either rpm or yum app.
# /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/rpm -Uvh http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-5.el7.nux.noarch.rpm
/usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/yum localinstall http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-5.el7.nux.noarch.rpm

# disable nux-dextop by default and only enable it as needed as part of running yum.
# skip this step to make all packages in nux-dextop available at all time.
/usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/sed -i 's/enabled=1/enabled=0/' /etc/yum.repos.d/nux-dextop.repo

# install the magical packages that does font look nice.
/usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/yum --enablerepo=nux-dextop install fontconfig-infinality cairo libXft freetype-infinality

# a good .fonts.conf file. not sure if necessary.
/usr/bin/cat << EOF > ~/.fonts.conf
    <?xml version="1.0"?>
    <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
    <fontconfig>
     <match target="font">
      <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
       <bool>true</bool>
      </edit>
     </match>
     <match target="font" >
      <edit mode="assign" name="autohint" >
       <bool>true</bool>
      </edit>
     </match>
     <match target="font">
      <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
      <const>hintslight</const>
      </edit>
     </match>
     <match target="font">
      <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
       <const>rgb</const>
      </edit>
     </match>
     <match target="font">
      <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
       <bool>true</bool>
      </edit>
     </match>
     <match target="font">
       <edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter">
       <const>lcddefault</const>
       </edit>
     </match>
    </fontconfig>
EOF

# done.
/usr/bin/echo
/usr/bin/echo 'log out and log back in for clear looking fonts.'