[noto-fonts] fonts are too big in firefox

Potomac · 2018-04-09 21:34:55

Hello,

since the update of noto-fonts package ((20171025-3 -> 20180322-1) I notice that the height of the noto-fonts is higher than the previous version,

I can notice the difference in firefox for the menu and title tabs,

example with noto-fonts 20180322-1:

and then with noto-fonts 20171025-3, the font height seems different:

I use plasma as desktop manager, oxygen theme, and this fontconfig configuration file :

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
 <match target="font">
  <edit name="lcdfilter" mode="assign">
   <const>lcddefault</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <!-- Reject bitmap fonts -->
 <selectfont>
  <rejectfont>
   <pattern>
    <patelt name="scalable">
     <bool>false</bool>
    </patelt>
   </pattern>
  </rejectfont>
 </selectfont>
 <dir>~/.fonts</dir>
 <alias binding="same">
  <family>Helvetica</family>
  <accept>
   <family>Liberation Sans</family>
  </accept>
 </alias>
 <alias binding="same">
  <family>Times</family>
  <accept>
   <family>Liberation Serif</family>
  </accept>
 </alias>
</fontconfig>

is it a bug ?

thanks

Last edited by Potomac (2018-04-09 21:40:53)

Asaf K. · 2018-04-10 10:57:52

I don't quite use Firefox, but most of the terminal emulators I use got screwed up since the new noto fonts was released. Downgrading solved the problem.
(Affected were terminator, lxterminal; xfce4-terminal and xterm were unaffected.)

So I think this might be related somehow.

Potomac · 2018-04-10 16:10:54

could it be a bug trigerred by a graphic driver ?

I use the radeon driver (amd radeon HD4650 pcie), maybe a bug in a graphic driver can cause a bad font rendering for noto-sans font ?

Last edited by Potomac (2018-04-10 16:11:18)

frebib · 2018-04-11 14:02:23

I'd like to add that I'm noticing this behaviour too. It's quite frustrating

It seems to happen in any GTK application, and QT too (I think)

Last edited by frebib (2018-04-11 14:02:58)

Asaf K. · 2018-04-16 14:30:38

I am using a Dell XPS 13, with an Intel HD620. I agree that something in the GTK packages is probably to blame.

ubone · 2018-04-21 16:31:58

Looks like hinting full. You could try add it with something like:

  <!-- Noto Sans -->
  <match target="font">
    <test name="force_autohint">
      <bool>false</bool>
    </test>
    <test name="family">
      <string>Noto Sans</string>
    </test>
    <edit name="antialias" mode="assign">
      <bool>true</bool>
    </edit>
    <edit name="hinting" mode="assign">
      <bool>true</bool>
    </edit>
    <edit name="autohint" mode="assign">
      <bool>false</bool>
    </edit>
    <edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign">
      <const>hintfull</const>
    </edit>
  </match>

Asaf K. · 2018-04-21 16:45:03

ubone wrote:

Looks like hinting full. You could try add it with something like:

To those of us who are not expert in setting up fonts manually, can you be a bit more specific as to where to put this?

seth · 2018-04-21 18:55:08

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … figuration

johan.cb · 2018-05-12 10:16:21

Hi Potomac,

set the font antialiasing to light. That fixed the ugly fonts in GTK programs for me.

Arch Linux

#1 2018-04-09 21:34:55

[noto-fonts] fonts are too big in firefox

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