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billodwyer

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Registered: 2013-06-15

Posts: 18

Japanese fonts with Infinality in Chromium not rendering well

After having installed Infinality, the rest of my fonts look brilliant.
Japanese fonts, however look distinctly awful. Which is odd, since before using Infinality, they weren't actually that bad.
I can't work out how to fix it, I've tried tweaking the font hinting in lxappearance (using Openbox, btw); had a poke around .Xresources, but still no joy.

Screenshot: http://imgur.com/qi1SVyh

anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

Posts: 3,059

Re: Japanese fonts with Infinality in Chromium not rendering well

Do the fonts look bad in just Chromium or other browsers/programs too?

iirc, Chromium is kinda bad with font rendering. Firefox should be better.

billodwyer

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Registered: 2013-06-15

Posts: 18

Re: Japanese fonts with Infinality in Chromium not rendering well

They do seem to look better in Firefox, but I'd rather not have to spend the time switching over to FF, since I have quite a good system of extensions etc. built up with Chrome/Chromium. If push comes to shove, I suppose I could ultimately swap into Firefox for my Japanese browsing, but I'd much prefer to just continue using Chromium...

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: Japanese fonts with Infinality in Chromium not rendering well

Sounds same as Japanese fonts bug in Chromium.

Goresome

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From: Russia

Registered: 2011-12-06

Posts: 67

Re: Japanese fonts with Infinality in Chromium not rendering well

You can try changing fonts for Japanesee typeset with official Advanced Font Settings extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta … ecicepbmbm.
Tho I think your fonts look good, mine are overhinted with stock freetype so that kanji in bold are almost unreadable.