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Hello,
I want to see how far we can improve the look of text on Arch Linux, so far mine is good, I've take a local.conf from this forum (don't remember where) and customized it a bit to look better, so let's see what everyone else have , this way we can make a good conbination to have in order to have a good looking Arch
my /etc/fonts/local.conf
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<!-- the cathectic LCD tweaks, from linuxquestions.org,
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?postid=1361098#post1361098
-->
<fontconfig>
<!-- Disable sub-pixel rendering. X detects it anyway, and if you set
this as well, it just looks really horrible -->
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
<const>rgb</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>hintfull</const>
</edit>
</match>
<!-- The first part of the 'magic.' This makes the fonts start to look
nice, but some of the shapes will be distorted, so hinting is needed
still -->
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<!-- Autohinter is not turned on automatically. Only disable this if you
have recompiled Freetype with the bytecode interpreter, which is run
automatically. Although to be honest, Freetype are right, there isn't
much difference between the two. Note that OpenOffice is built against
the bytecode interpreter, so even if you have compiled it and override
it with the autohinter, OOo will still use the bytecode interpreter -->
<match target="pattern" >
<edit mode="assign" name="autohint">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<!-- Helvetica is a non true type font, and will look bad. This replaces
it with whatever is the default sans-serif font -->
<match target="pattern" name="family" >
<test name="family" qual="any" >
<string>Helvetica</string>
</test>
<edit mode="assign" name="family" >
<string>sans-serif</string>
</edit>
</match>
<alias>
<family>serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>Bitstream Vera Serif</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>sans-serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>Bitstream Vera Sans</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>monospace</family>
<prefer>
<family>Bitstream Vera Sans Mono</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
# Custom fonts directories
<dir>~/.fonts</dir>
</fontconfig>
File paths in xorg.conf
Section "Files"
# Rgb path
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
# Modules path
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
# Fonts
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc" # xorg-fonts-misc
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic" # xorg-fonts-cyrillic
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi" # xorg-fonts-100dpi
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" # xorg-fonts-100dpi
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi" # xorg-fonts-75dpi
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" # xorg-fonts-75dpi
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1" # xorg-fonts-type1
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF" #
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/speedo" # font-bitstream-speedo
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/OTF" #
EndSection
and pacman -Qs -- -font
[wael@nasreddine ~]$ pacman -Qs -- -font
local/ttf-ms-fonts 1.3-7
Un-extracted TTF Fonts from Microsoft
local/xorg-font-utils 1.0.0-1
X.Org font utilities
local/xorg-fonts-100dpi 1.0.0-2
X.org 100dpi fonts
local/xorg-fonts-75dpi 1.0.0-2
X.org 75dpi fonts
local/xorg-fonts-alias 1.0.1-1
X.org font alias files
local/xorg-fonts-cyrillic 1.0.0-1
X.org cyrillic fonts
local/xorg-fonts-encodings 1.0.0-1
X.org font encoding files
local/xorg-fonts-misc 1.0.0-2
X.org misc fonts
local/xorg-fonts-type1 1.0.0-2
X.org Type1 fonts
screenshot of http://www.danielgreene.com/fontprop.html page
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I love my fonts. 8)
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<match target="font" >
<test compare="more" name="pixelsize" qual="any">
<double>7</double>
</test>
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>
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My ~/.fonts.conf:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
<const>hintfull</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
<const>rgb</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>
Btw. I am using DejaVu Sans fonts - clone of Bitstream Vera with added support for Central European and other Unicode characters and also some truetype hinting improvements.
I totally love full hinting (and doesn't like autohinter), in my opinion linux have much nicer fonts rendering than Windows XP.
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Probably related to the monitor, but gandalf, many of your fonts have a red shadow at the left side and a blue shadow on the right side!
I use the defaults, I don't even know what autohinting is :oops:...
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Yep i noticed that, it's kinda annoying but i can't find out from where the shadow is coming...
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Mine definitely need some work, but I haven't taken the time to really mess with them. I'm using a variation of one of the tweaks posted here in the forums (don't remember where exactly). Here's my screenshot of the CSS Font Properties Test:
...and here's what my <code>~/.fonts.conf</code> looks like:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<!-- the cathectic LCD tweaks, from linuxquestions.org,
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?postid=1361098#post1361098 -->
<fontconfig>
<!-- Disable sub-pixel rendering. X detects it anyway, and
if you set this as well, it just looks really horrible -->
<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>hintfull</const>
</edit>
</match>
<!-- The first part of the 'magic.' This makes the fonts
start to look nice, but some of the shapes will be distorted,
so hinting is needed still -->
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<!-- Helvetica is a non true type font, and will look bad.
This replaces it with whatever is the default sans-serif font -->
<match target="pattern" name="family" >
<test name="family" qual="any" >
<string>Helvetica</string>
</test>
<edit mode="assign" name="family" >
<string>sans-serif</string>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>
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I would like to show my results, since i recently reinstalled and have very little tweaking.
I think the fonts look good, but
http://www.danielgreene.com/fontprop.html is to big to make a screenshot.
How did you guys make those screenshots ?
Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.
(A works at time B) && (time C > time B ) ≠ (A works at time C)
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I would like to show my results, since i recently reinstalled and have very little tweaking.
I think the fonts look good, but
http://www.danielgreene.com/fontprop.html is to big to make a screenshot.How did you guys make those screenshots ?
If you have imagemagick installed, use "import -window root image.png" for example
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I use a Firefox extension that takes advantage of the new canvas features of Firefox 1.5, it's called Pearl Crescent Page Saver. It's extremely handy...
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Thx elasticdog very handy
[URL=http://serv2.imagehigh.com/view.php?id=15088_Arch_Linux_Forums__View_topic___share_your_fonts_configuration.png&path=/files/ih000001][/URL]
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Indeed, very handy tool, thanks elasticdog.
Standard fontconfig, LCD monitor, KDE+Firefox , antialiasing medium hinting
fonts :
xorg-fonts-100dpi 1.0.0-2
xorg-fonts-75dpi 1.0.0-2
xorg-fonts-misc
xorg-fonts-type1
ttf-ms-fonts
ttf-cheapskate
ttf-bitstream-vera
Edit : sorry the image is so small, seems there's some automatic resizing going on.
2nd Edit : Uploaded to a different host, now it should work
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Edit : sorry the image is so small, seems there's some automatic resizing going on.
Go to Tools -> Extensions -> Pearl Crescent Page Saver -> Preferences and change the 25% value into 100%
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Uhm. Posting your font configs here is entirely useless if you happen to use KDE/Gnome or XFCE as they override some of those settings with their own.
Just thought it might be worth mentioning.
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Uhm. Posting your font configs here is entirely useless if you happen to use KDE/Gnome or XFCE as they override some of those settings with their own.
Ah. So that's what's wrong with my many attempts to get things looking even half-way like _Gandalf_'s image. Bummer...
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