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Utini

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Font in MS-Word (wine) so much nicer than on my whole Arch ?

Hello everyone, 
just hooked up my laptop to a 27" screen and noticed how bad the font of my Arch actually look like. I then started MS-Word and noticed that the fonts inside MS-Word looked actually quite good.
So it seems like my Arch is having these bad fonts and I wonder why? Is it the font itself or is it my font settings?   

Fonts: http://files.bestmail.ws/fonts.png 
Settings: https://gist.github.com/cryzed/e002e705 … 9e748c5671 

Screenshots that probably won't tell much due to bad compression quality :S 
Fonts: http://files.bestmail.ws/font-arch.png 
Fonts: http://files.bestmail.ws/font-word.png

Thanks !

Last edited by Utini (2017-07-05 14:36:37)

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ewaller

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Re: Font in MS-Word (wine) so much nicer than on my whole Arch ?

Your last two links are 404

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Utini

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Re: Font in MS-Word (wine) so much nicer than on my whole Arch ?

Your last two links are 404

Woopsie, fixed it !

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HiImTye

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Registered: 2012-05-09

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Re: Font in MS-Word (wine) so much nicer than on my whole Arch ?

the font you think looks good is Calibri, as Word tells you.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Microsoft_fonts

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: Font in MS-Word (wine) so much nicer than on my whole Arch ?

In addition see here.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … _rendering

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brebs

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Re: Font in MS-Word (wine) so much nicer than on my whole Arch ?

Both screenshots look good. The thing about fonts is that it's highly subjective, and also highly dependent on the hardware that the person is staring at.

As always, I recommend Infinality patches, and playing with fontconfig until one finds a good look.