Incredible Shrinking Fonts

[Petrus de Calguarium]

Neal Becker wrote:

> the aliases:
> 
> Sans Serif
> Monospace
> 
> All point to DejaVu.

I just discovered this, too, a few days ago.

I was rooting around in /etc/fonts/conf.d, trying ot understand what is 
goingon there, when I noticed the tail ends of the following 3 files:

57-dejavu-sans.conf
57-dejavu-sans-mono.conf
57-dejavu-serif.conf

I cannot claim to explicitly comprehend the code, but at the end of each 
file, there is a Generic Name Assignment and Generic Name Aliasing section, 
which would appear to suggest that:

serif is an alias for DejaVu serif
sans-serif is an alias for DejaVu sans-serif
monospace is an alias for DejaVu monospace