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authorDanilo M. <danix@danix.xyz>2026-09-17 10:04:09 +0200
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feat: give the clock its own font
Installs Oswald (OFL-1.1, from googlefonts/OswaldFont) under ~/.fonts/o/Oswald with its license, and points the clock numerals at it for the squared look the rounded Noto Sans Black did not have. Per-widget fonts needed no new machinery: card.font() already takes any family string, so FONT_* are shared defaults rather than a restriction. FONT_CLOCK joins them, and the weather card keeps FONT_HEAVY, so the two no longer have to agree. Cairo still cannot ask for a weight above bold, so a heavier cut is selected by family name as FONT_HEAVY already did. Worth knowing that fontconfig substitutes a default for a family it does not recognise, which is indistinguishable from the font not applying; fc-match tells you which happened. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -206,7 +206,17 @@ to Lua either. What Lua does get is `conky_config`, the config file's path, so
`dashboard.lua` opens that file and parses the hex out of it.
**Cairo has no Black font weight.** `CAIRO_FONT_WEIGHT_BOLD` is the maximum, so
-the heavy clock numerals ask for the family `Noto Sans Black` at normal weight.
+a heavier cut is selected by the family name fontconfig registers for it, e.g.
+`Noto Sans Black` or `Oswald SemiBold` at normal weight, rather than by asking
+for bold.
+
+**Fonts are per-widget when a widget wants one.** `lib/card.lua` holds the
+shared `FONT_*` families, but `card.font()` takes any family string, so a
+widget passes its own. The clock uses `FONT_CLOCK` (Oswald, OFL-1.1, under
+`~/.fonts/o/Oswald`) for squared numerals while the weather card keeps
+`FONT_HEAVY`. Check a new family with `fc-match` first: fontconfig silently
+substitutes a default for a name it does not know, which looks exactly like the
+font "not applying".
**Sensors are globbed by hwmon `name`, never by index.** Indices drift across
kernel and hardware reorders, and a stale one silently reports a different chip.