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Foxandxss

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Registered: 2008-11-23

Posts: 16

[SOLVED] My firefox fonts are too blurry / smooth

Hello, Im a mint user so far but I really want to move to Arch but my fight versus Fonts are not good:

Fonts 3 - Me 1

No luck

I readed the wiki enough times but I'm not a font expert, but I tried a lot of stuff.

So far:

I installed win7 fonts from AUR, ttf-mac (for lucida grande), and obviously dejavu and liberation.

The fonts are good, but I can't render them properly.

This is my .fonts.conf:

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="rgba">
   <const>none</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="hinting">
   <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="antialias">
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
</fontconfig>

I have dualhead (24"+24" (but 16:10 / 16:9), 3840+1200) with twinview.

I dont know what dpi I have ("xdpyinfo | grep dot" says 93x94 but.. I have two monitors and xorg treats it like a big one).

About my fonts.conf, I tried the lcddefault (no changes), I can't use any rgba option (I got a weird double color / shadow behaviour).

In short, that is the conf that have the best results.

Problems: I saw that the fonts color are always slightly light and blurry.

Example:

Arch blurry (the color problem is not noticed with blue)
http://i.imgur.com/XSNT4.png

Ubuntu crisp:
http://i.imgur.com/pnhWE.png

I admit that are not that bad, but is there

With bigger fonts, the problem is more noticiable but I have not found a clear example.

I looked all mint configurations, tried to imitate it, but the fonts still renders different. (same .ttf)

Ideas? Thanks.

Last edited by Foxandxss (2012-03-19 22:10:48)

foppe

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Registered: 2011-04-02

Posts: 47

Re: [SOLVED] My firefox fonts are too blurry / smooth

You might want to have a look at font-config-ubuntu (with Ubuntu's LCD rendering patches) in AUR. I'm no expert on this topic so do the reading and background checks yourself

wolfcore

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From: California

Registered: 2012-03-06

Posts: 137

Re: [SOLVED] My firefox fonts are too blurry / smooth

Please resize your images to fit with the image guidelines.

As for the fonts...those two pictures' fonts look near identical IMO

Last edited by wolfcore (2012-03-19 21:23:06)

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Foxandxss

Member

Registered: 2008-11-23

Posts: 16

Re: [SOLVED] My firefox fonts are too blurry / smooth

I changed the images for links

And yes, near identical.

I digged deeper. Without ".fonts.conf" and using gnome 3 with slight hint and antialiasing to "rgba", the result is good enough (I don't know where gnome-tweak-tool saves the config).

Seems like gnome activates subpixel (rgb) and uses a lcddefault. I tried subpixel in the past but was kinda "missplaced" so the effect was really bad.

So, activating rgb subpixel and using lcddefault, solves the problem, well, at least same result as ubuntu / mint

So, I will mark this as solved, and I hope it helps who comes after