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kelnoky

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Registered: 2007-11-20

Posts: 135

[solved] Fonts in Firefox ugly (not anti-aliased?)

I did a fresh Arch install recently and a few fonts in Firefox still look butt-ugly. As you can see here: http://i.imgur.com/LQXHc3f.png
The Font for the xkcd's title and the "A webcomic of romance etc"-bit are not anti-aliased, it looks like. This happens in a few other websites as well.

I have tried this as my ~/.config/fonts.conf

<fontconfig>
   <match target="font" >
      <edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit>
      <edit name="hinting" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
      <edit name="antialias" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
      <edit name="autohint" mode="assign"><bool>false</bool></edit>
      <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"><const>hintslight</const></edit>
   </match>     
</fontconfig>

I restarted firefox after that, but with no effect. Does anyone have a suggestion?

Last edited by kelnoky (2014-06-27 21:06:16)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [solved] Fonts in Firefox ugly (not anti-aliased?)

Have you read the wiki article on fonts?

Foucault

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From: Athens, Greece

Registered: 2010-04-06

Posts: 222

Re: [solved] Fonts in Firefox ugly (not anti-aliased?)

You most probably need to disable embedded bitmaps. Fontconfig configuration is a bit complex, so perusing the wiki entry will help you in the long term.

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kelnoky

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Registered: 2007-11-20

Posts: 135

Re: [solved] Fonts in Firefox ugly (not anti-aliased?)

Solved. Apparently restarting Firefox wasn't enough somehow. After a reboot, for other reasons, everything is fine with the fonts, so my initial fonts.conf was enough.