Latest update made fonts look thinner

vityafx · 2015-12-01 06:57:57

The update I did yesterday (I do updates each evening) came with a font patch which makes font much thinner. I am not sure what exactly updated but nothing like gsfonts (it makes font look very ugly) or fontconfig as far as I remember. The reason why I post this here is because I want my thick font back or at least to configure this thickness. Is there any way to do this?

Last edited by vityafx (2015-12-01 07:04:41)

ooo · 2015-12-01 07:04:02

Are you using infinality? If you do, this has already been covered in infinality-bundle thread.

vityafx · 2015-12-01 07:05:45

ooo wrote:

Are you using infinality? If you do, this has already been covered in infinality-bundle thread.

Yes I use infinality on my home pc but I use it for like 2 months and fonts were thick until yesterday. So is this change was made for infinality? Also, on my work pc I dont use infinality but fonts have exactly same thickness as on home pc so I still doubt this is infinality-related thing.

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jasonwryan · 2015-12-01 07:10:53

freetype2 was upgraded in the last couple of days.

vityafx · 2015-12-01 07:22:03

jasonwryan wrote:

freetype2 was upgraded in the last couple of days.

Is there any settings to configure ? Looks like exactly `freetype2` caused this.

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jasonwryan · 2015-12-01 07:25:52

If you want to configure specifics, install bohoomil's patchset and tweak the config. There are details in the last pages of the thread.

ugjka · 2015-12-01 10:25:29

Try tweaking hintstyle https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … on#Hinting
I personally use hintmedium

cat /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hintmedium.conf 
<match target="font">
    <edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign">
      <const>hintmedium</const>
    </edit>
</match>

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yupi · 2015-12-01 15:29:06

Hi! Any progress on this?
The advice by @ugjka does not seem to help.

This is, IMHO, a usability issue, because, e.g., I can see holes in Chromium tab title letters.
(Maybe somebody tweaked Chromium titles so that they would look good with old freetype but they don't with the new one.)

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Ropid · 2015-12-01 17:18:10

Post the environment variables you use for the freetype2-infinality package.

kalessin · 2015-12-02 00:31:44

Hello,

I wanted to add that this freetype2 upgrade totally broke font hinting with ttf-inconsolata in gvim, downgrading the package using my cache solved the issue.

I haven't looked at a better solution yet.

edit: look like this might be related with more permanent changes in freetype, cf latest updates on: http://freetype.org/, still haven't looked into how to fix the hinting.

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vityafx · 2015-12-02 07:28:57

yupi wrote:

Hi! Any progress on this?
The advice by @ugjka does not seem to help.
This is, IMHO, a usability issue, because, e.g., I can see holes in Chromium tab title letters.
(Maybe somebody tweaked Chromium titles so that they would look good with old freetype but they don't with the new one.)

Same problem here. The solution provided by @ugjka does not work for me too.

kalessin · 2015-12-03 01:38:58

I upgraded by mistake again today, here is a screenshot to illustrate the problem:

https://www.kalessin.fr/~kal/arch_freetype_2_6_2.png

I still haven't looked at a solution.

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knotic · 2015-12-03 10:11:23

I am having the same issues as kalessin, it affects all terminal text, forcing me to downgrade freetype to 2.6.1.

I use i3 + urxvt + ttf-inconsolata.

Here is my fonts.conf:
http://ix.io/mBR

Thanks, I would appreciate any help!

vityafx · 2015-12-25 08:13:05

Just now, after updating:

perl-5.22.1-1-x86_64 12.9 MiB 738K/s 00:18 [##################################] 100%
gnupg-2.1.10-3-x86_64 1768.0 KiB 1059K/s 00:02 [##################################] 100%
libvisio-0.1.4-1-x86_64 595.7 KiB 925K/s 00:01 [##################################] 100%
noto-fonts-20151224-2-any 4.3 MiB 321K/s 00:14 [##################################] 100%
ocl-icd-2.2.8-1-x86_64

The fonts look much different. You know, MUCH different! I don't yet understand better or worse, but I am so much tired of changing the fonts to which I got used to, can it be stopped? In this particular update I blame noto-fonts package (yes, because it contains fonts word) for changing fonts. Is there anyway to configure it or still the easiest way is just to downgrade packages? Uh!

Orrlin · 2016-01-05 23:27:53

I also noticed a change in the fonts. I just realized that the whole Wikipedia Side looked a lot different on my Firefox as on Chrome. Reducing the size in Firefox suddenly made the side look "normal" again. With this in mind I also changed the gnome fonts Cantarell Bold and Cantarell Regular from size 11 to size 10 and the look improved a lot as well.
In addition to that I should state that the font changes only seems to be occured on my desktop while my laptop didn't show any kind of changes in the font. In contrast to my desktop my laptop has an HiDPI display, maybe that's relevant (just guessing).

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