BSD Ports

x11-fonts/atkinson-hyperlegible 2020.0514_1 DragonFly

Braille Institute font for low vision readers

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
ATKINSON-HYPERLEGIBLE
Categories
accessibility, x11-fonts
Package size
175.5 KiB, 366.1 KiB installed

Description

Atkinson Hyperlegible font is named after Braille Institute founder, J. Robert Atkinson. What makes it different from traditional typography design is that it focuses on letterform distinction to increase character recognition, ultimately improving readability.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 2025.01, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
DragonFlyx11-fonts/atkinson-hyperlegible2020.0514_1none known-[email protected]-
FreeBSDx11-fonts/atkinson-hyperlegible2020.0514_1none known-[email protected]2026-10-22
OpenBSDfonts/atkinson-hyperlegible by name2025.01 newestno data-The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <[email protected]>-
NetBSDwip/atkinson-hyperlegible by name0.0.20210429none known-[email protected]2026-09-16

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Install

Binary package:

pkg install atkinson-hyperlegible

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/x11-fonts/atkinson-hyperlegible && make install clean

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

Dependencies

Run dependencies 2

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts
none

Message after installing

To use these fonts, add the following line to the "Files" section of
xorg.conf:

	FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts/atkinson-hyperlegible/"

Users of older versions of X may additionally have to make sure that
the freetype module is loaded.  Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log for error
messages.  If freetype is required, add the following line to the
"Modules" section of xorg.conf:

	Load "freetype"