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dry

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Registered: 2020-12-23

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[SOLVED] Noto Sans looks wrong when installed through pacman

Greetings, since I switched back from Plasma to Xfce Noto Sans hasn't been rendering properly
https://i.postimg.cc/tCm85KGZ/i1.png
This is how it should look like.
https://i.postimg.cc/K86wXtzm/i2.png
I've tried reinstalling noto-fonts, even deleting the downloaded files, reinstalling XFCE, deleting all files in /etc/fonts/ and reinstalling fontconfig, deleting global and local fontconfig cache and I've even checked that ~/.config/gtk-2.0 and ~/.config/gtk-3.0 don't affect the font settings. I managed to get it to work by removing the noto-fonts package and installing the fonts manually in /usr/share/fonts/TTF, while the noto-fonts installed through pacman are located in /usr/share/fonts/noto. I think that it is not recognizing the conf.d files in /etc/fonts that the noto-sans package uses to specify that the fonts in /usr/share/fonts/noto are TTF.
Is there some other configuration file I'm missing that is causing this?

Last edited by dry (2020-12-29 02:33:07)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Noto Sans looks wrong when installed through pacman

That's noto, but bad hinting.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … on#Hinting

Could be the cleartype change?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … _rendering

(but read the entire segment and compare your config)

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dry

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Registered: 2020-12-23

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED] Noto Sans looks wrong when installed through pacman

Setting the hinting to Slight did the trick.