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anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

Posts: 3,059

ugly fonts on Xkcd.com [Solved]

Heres what it looks like on my Arch setup:

and heres from an Ubuntu Live CD:

Currently Im using Xfce and my font settings are Anti-aliasing enabled, hinting full, and sub-pixel order RGB.

I also have a .fonts.conf:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
 <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>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
</fontconfig>

But I don't think its doing anything.

Any ideas on how to make my fonts better.

Last edited by anonymous_user (2009-10-19 16:53:24)

grwn

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Registered: 2009-08-11

Posts: 5

Re: ugly fonts on Xkcd.com [Solved]

Hey there,

Have you tried this: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beg … tall_Fonts ? I always skip it myself when installing.

Gerwin

litemotiv

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Registered: 2008-08-01

Posts: 5,026

Re: ugly fonts on Xkcd.com [Solved]

xkcd uses the "Lucida" font, which isnt installed or configured on your system. what you can do:

- email xkcd that he rather use a websafe font
- install Lucida
- add a fallback font for Lucida in /etc/fonts/conf.d/45-latin.conf

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lolilolicon

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Registered: 2009-03-05

Posts: 1,722

Re: ugly fonts on Xkcd.com [Solved]

I find I have Lucida font installed, but xkcd.com font looks just as badly. So I checked it in fontmanager.py...
The Lucida font I've installed seems... corrupt?!

And my fonts.conf has:
http://paste.pocoo.org/show/hq6oXNX45zEGwYsL4R9F/

...What should I do?

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litemotiv

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Registered: 2008-08-01

Posts: 5,026

Re: ugly fonts on Xkcd.com [Solved]

@lollicon: i think that's merely the alias showing, the actual font probably isnt installed on your system.

try this:

$ locate -i lucida

font hinting / antialising settings have nothing to do with this. lucida is licensed by Sun and usually distributed in the sun-java-jre package (jre in Community on arch).

also Lucida != Lucida Sans Unicode, which is the pre-configured Lucida variant in /fonts/conf.d/. it could help to make a separate alias for Lucida there.

Last edited by litemotiv (2009-10-19 09:39:16)

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lolilolicon

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Registered: 2009-03-05

Posts: 1,722

Re: ugly fonts on Xkcd.com [Solved]

Thank you litemotiv for clarifying things for me.

so i just added to fonts.conf

 <match target="pattern" name="family" >
    <test name="family" qual="any" >
     <string>Lucida</string>
    </test>
    <edit mode="assign" name="family" >
     <string>Lucida Grande</string>
    </edit>
 </match>

looks fine.. so i just let it be

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gog

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Registered: 2009-10-13

Posts: 103

Re: ugly fonts on Xkcd.com [Solved]

You can download perfectly legal lucida fonts for linux from http:www.sharpfonts.com

Or you can force all sites to use your own fonts in firefox

ras0ir

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Registered: 2008-06-20

Posts: 65

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Re: ugly fonts on Xkcd.com [Solved]

try removing xorg-fonts-100dpi and xorg-fonts-75dpi packages.

anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

Posts: 3,059

Re: ugly fonts on Xkcd.com [Solved]

Thank you ras0ir. Now it looks much better.