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ImbaLocus

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Registered: 2012-05-09

Posts: 22

How to make firefox render fonts as google-chrome does? (screenshot)

How do I make firefox render fonts as google chrome does as shown in screenshot? (Chrome below and firefox above)

Notice for instance the dash "/", "Explore", "Features" etc and the text at the bottom "added git_fixes".

I'm no expert but is it antialiasing that makes the difference? Cause it seems the font is the same, right?

.Xresources

Xft.dpi:       120
Xft.antialias: true
Xft.hinting:   true
Xft.hintstyle: hintmedium
Xft.rgba:      rgb
Xft.lcdfilter:  lcdlight
...

~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
  <match target="font">
    <edit name="antialias" mode="assign">
      <bool>true</bool>
    </edit>
    <edit name="hinting" mode="assign">
      <bool>true</bool>
    </edit>
    <edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign">
      <const>hintfull</const>
    </edit>
    <edit name="rgba" mode="assign">
      <const>rgb</const>
    </edit>
    <edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter">
      <const>lcdlight</const>
    </edit>
  </match>
</fontconfig>

I have ttf-win7-fonts installed, and also recently I've installed Infinality (haven't configured it, necessary?).

Advice appreciated.

bleach

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Registered: 2013-07-26

Posts: 264

Re: How to make firefox render fonts as google-chrome does? (screenshot)

well in firefox you can chose your font and then unclick the let sites chose there own fonts.

ya looking at your picture I do see the diff. but I do not have that pixelation in my firefox.

.Xresources has nothing to do with gtk

Last edited by bleach (2015-01-25 23:38:54)

ImbaLocus

Member

Registered: 2012-05-09

Posts: 22

Re: How to make firefox render fonts as google-chrome does? (screenshot)

well in firefox you can chose your font and then unclick the let sites chose there own fonts.

ya looking at your picture I do see the diff. but I do not have that pixelation in my firefox.

.Xresources has nothing to do with gtk

I do want to let sites choose their own fonts though.

When I look closely on my screenshot I wonder if it's even the same font though (the "3" looks very different).
Perhaps that's where the problem lies.

If I force firefox to use Arial, it looks good. If I set it to Helvetica which seems to be the font used, it looks like in the screenshot - pixelated.

$ fc-match helvetica
helvR12-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz: "Helvetica" "Regular"

Seems it doesn't use truetype (helvetica.ttf?) as default font for helvetica - shouldn't it?