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miniture_

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Registered: 2014-01-04

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] Font issues

I've been trying to figure out whats going on with no success, been searching for hours.

This issue mainly affects Sublime Text, as can be seen here: http://i.imgur.com/rQZQiyC.png

The font and size in the sidebar and tabs is way too small and I can't seem to figure out what's causing it, I've tried increasing the font sizes for Openbox and the GTK+ theme but nothing changes.

What am I missing here? any help would be appreciated.

Last edited by miniture_ (2014-01-06 04:20:34)

elipp

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Registered: 2013-12-19

Posts: 11

Re: [SOLVED] Font issues

The font that's being used by the sidebar view looks sort of like a fallback font for when a preferred (monospace) font couldn't  be found. What font packages have you got installed (output of pacman -Qs 'ttf-')? Installing at least ttf-dejavu or ttf-droid would probably fix that.

Also, as a bit of a fontphile myself I would love to recommend the Infinality-patched freetype2 and fontconfig packages from the AUR for the (imo!) absolute best font rendering experience currently available for any platform.

(match those with the OS X fonts package and the infctl setstyle OS X configuration option = AWESOME stuff).

miniture_

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Registered: 2014-01-04

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Font issues

Installed packages matching ttf-* are:

ttf-dejavu
ttf-google-fonts-git
ttf-liberation
ttf-monaco
ttf-ms-fonts
ttf-vista-fonts

I also went ahead and installed the OS X fonts package. This is why I'm a little lost with why Sublime Text is using a small ugly font, I have fonts installed and not sure if I just don't have the right one installed or if there's an alias I need to setup.

Update

I'm currently doing a fresh install of my system, upon launching Openbox with all the base fonts plus Dejavu, the font in ST looks normal. I also went ahead and installed the Infinality packages and rechecked ST, still looking good, however, everything else looks much better.

While I continue to setup my system, I will be rechecking ST every font I do something font-related. Thanks for the tips about Infinality and the OSX fonts.

Update 2: Solved

This is only a guess, but the issues with ST probably came from installing the ms-fonts package, that's pretty much the only package I didn't reinstall when doing a new install. I used the win8 fonts package and have had no major issues so far.

Last edited by miniture_ (2014-01-06 04:25:25)