Blur terminal font...

dsdeiz · 2010-11-11 01:38:36

Hi,

I am a bit having trouble with my terminal font. I used to have a problem related with fonts and firefox but had it resolved. Here are the screenshots between the monaco and bitstream vera sans mono font:

Monaco looks really nice while Bitstream Vera Sans Mono seems blur. This is what I have for my .Xdefaults:

URxvt*font: xft:Monaco:size=7.5
URxvt*boldFont: xft:Monaco:size=7.5

and

URxvt*font: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8
URxvt*boldFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8

And for font related settings, I just followed the one from the wiki :

Xft.dpi:        96
Xft.antialias:  true
Xft.rgba:       rgb
Xft.hinting:    true
Xft.hintstyle:   hintslight

Any help appreciated. Thanks!

jasonwryan · 2010-11-11 06:40:49

Bitstream Vera works fine in my terminals. Do you have a .fonts.conf?

bazmonkey · 2010-11-11 07:13:51

It looks like it's doing sub-pixel anti-aliasing with the Bitstream font, but not with Monaco. It's that coloring that's getting to you, right?

Try:

URxvt*font: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8:antialias=false
URxvt*boldFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8:antialias=false

dmz · 2010-11-11 10:40:14

Jesus, why are you using xft? Stop, now.
Pick something from xlsfonts, preferably monte carlo, profont or terminus. And turn off xft.

dsdeiz · 2010-11-12 02:30:44

jasonwryan wrote:

Bitstream Vera works fine in my terminals. Do you have a .fonts.conf?

I don't think I have one. Mind sharing yours?

bazmonkey wrote:

It looks like it's doing sub-pixel anti-aliasing with the Bitstream font, but not with Monaco. It's that coloring that's getting to you, right?
Try:
URxvt*font: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8:antialias=false
URxvt*boldFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8:antialias=false

Seems sharper but looks a bit weird.

dmz wrote:

Jesus, why are you using xft? Stop, now.
Pick something from xlsfonts, preferably monte carlo, profont or terminus. And turn off xft.

Monaco looks fine though. I'll probably just stick to it together with terminus.

Thanks!

Last edited by dsdeiz (2010-11-12 02:31:18)

jasonwryan · 2010-11-12 02:37:42

dsdeiz wrote:

jasonwryan wrote:
Bitstream Vera works fine in my terminals. Do you have a .fonts.conf?
I don't think I have one. Mind sharing yours?

Probably best if you create your own: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_Configuration

Look at subpixel rendering and some of the troubleshooting sections. Post back if you have difficulties with it.

litemotiv · 2010-11-12 08:42:32

dmz wrote:

Jesus, why are you using xft? Stop, now.
Pick something from xlsfonts, preferably monte carlo, profont or terminus. And turn off xft.

There's nothing wrong with using xft as long as there are no better freetype engines available, so we can leave jesus out of this.

dsdeiz · 2010-11-14 11:03:23

jasonwryan wrote:

dsdeiz wrote:
jasonwryan wrote:
Bitstream Vera works fine in my terminals. Do you have a .fonts.conf?
I don't think I have one. Mind sharing yours?
Probably best if you create your own: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_Configuration
Look at subpixel rendering and some of the troubleshooting sections. Post back if you have difficulties with it.

I checked the Font Configuration wiki regarding subpixel rendering. I then did the one posted there which was:

# cd /etc/fonts/conf.d
# ln -s ../conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf

Doesn't look any different to me though:

I also have these in my /etc/fonts/conf.d directory:

10-lcd-filter.conf -> ../conf.avail/10-lcd-filter.conf
10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf -> ../conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf
20-fix-globaladvance.conf -> ../conf.avail/20-fix-globaladvance.conf
20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans.conf -> ../conf.avail/20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans.conf
20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans-mono.conf -> ../conf.avail/20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans-mono.conf
20-unhint-small-dejavu-serif.conf -> ../conf.avail/20-unhint-small-dejavu-serif.conf
20-unhint-small-vera.conf -> ../conf.avail/20-unhint-small-vera.conf
29-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf -> ../conf.avail/29-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf
30-metric-aliases.conf -> ../conf.avail/30-metric-aliases.conf
30-urw-aliases.conf -> ../conf.avail/30-urw-aliases.conf
40-nonlatin.conf -> ../conf.avail/40-nonlatin.conf
45-latin.conf -> ../conf.avail/45-latin.conf
49-sansserif.conf -> ../conf.avail/49-sansserif.conf
50-user.conf -> ../conf.avail/50-user.conf
51-local.conf -> ../conf.avail/51-local.conf
57-dejavu-sans.conf -> ../conf.avail/57-dejavu-sans.conf
57-dejavu-sans-mono.conf -> ../conf.avail/57-dejavu-sans-mono.conf
57-dejavu-serif.conf -> ../conf.avail/57-dejavu-serif.conf
60-latin.conf -> ../conf.avail/60-latin.conf
65-fonts-persian.conf -> ../conf.avail/65-fonts-persian.conf
65-nonlatin.conf -> ../conf.avail/65-nonlatin.conf
69-unifont.conf -> ../conf.avail/69-unifont.conf
80-delicious.conf -> ../conf.avail/80-delicious.conf
90-synthetic.conf -> ../conf.avail/90-synthetic.conf

It's the first time I visited this directory so dunno if this info helps or anything..

Thanks!

jasonwryan · 2010-11-14 18:49:09

That fix is for the Ubuntu packages - are you using them?

dsdeiz · 2010-11-15 04:10:23

jasonwryan wrote:

That fix is for the Ubuntu packages - are you using them?

Nope, I'm using the official ones from the repo. Though I previously installed the Ubuntu packages.

Arch Linux

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