[SOLVED] Text appears smaller than it should

Freder · 2021-07-17 21:38:28

Hi, I hope that this is not a dumb problem, but my text looks messed up in some applications.
It's not due to the applications themselves because the problem is the same among all of them, but probably because of some font configuration (which I never messed with).

Specifically, this problem is related to vscode, sublimetext and dmenu.
I really don't know how to explain this, the font "doesn't take all the available space and is slightly vertically misaligned".
The images will showcase the problem better.

I tried to look for similar problems and checkout the font page in the arch wiki, but still couldn't figure out how to solve this.

Screenshots

Last edited by Freder (2021-07-19 12:23:43)

seth · 2021-07-18 05:33:53

Sounds like https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=267851

probably because of some font configuration (which I never messed with)

Let's see

pacman -Qikk fontconfig
fc-conflist

nevertheless - maybe some package is floating a bogus config file.

Is this a regression or has it always been like this?

Freder · 2021-07-18 10:44:54

It has always been this way, not a regression.
By the way, now I've noticed that this problem affects also other applications, however, it is most noticeable in the ones I showed in the previous screenshot.

pacman -Qikk fontconfig output:

Name            : fontconfig
Version         : 2:2.13.94-1
Description     : Library for configuring and customizing font access
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fontconfig/
Licenses        : custom
Groups          : None
Provides        : libfontconfig.so=1-64  fontconfig-docs
Depends On      : libexpat.so=1-64  libfreetype.so=6-64
Optional Deps   : None
Required By     : cairo  dmenu  ffmpeg  ghostscript  imagemagick  libass  libbluray  libxft  poppler  qt5-base
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : fontconfig-docs
Replaces        : fontconfig-docs<2:2.13.93-1
Installed Size  : 762.45 KiB
Packager        : Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Tue 29 Jun 2021 12:41:59 AM CEST
Install Date    : Tue 13 Jul 2021 10:51:35 AM CEST
Install Reason  : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script  : Yes
Validated By    : Signature

fontconfig: 339 total files, 0 altered files

fc-conflist output:

+ /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf: Set hintslight to hintstyle
+ /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf: Bitmap scaling
+ /etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-vera.conf: Disable hinting for Bitstream Vera fonts when the size is less than 8ppem
+ /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf: Set substitutions for similar/metric-compatible families
+ /etc/fonts/conf.d/40-nonlatin.conf: Set substitutions for non-Latin fonts
+ /etc/fonts/conf.d/45-generic.conf: Set substitutions for emoji/math fonts
+ /etc/fonts/conf.d/45-latin.conf: Set substitutions for Latin fonts
+ /etc/fonts/conf.d/49-sansserif.conf: Add sans-serif to the family when no generic name
+ /etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf: Load per-user customization files
+ /etc/fonts/conf.d/51-local.conf: Load local customization file
+ /etc/fonts/conf.d/60-generic.conf: Set preferable fonts for emoji/math fonts
+ /etc/fonts/conf.d/60-latin.conf: Set preferable fonts for Latin
+ /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-persian.conf: No description
+ /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-nonlatin.conf: Set preferable fonts for non-Latin
+ /etc/fonts/conf.d/69-unifont.conf: No description
+ /etc/fonts/conf.d/69-urw-bookman.conf: No description
+ /etc/fonts/conf.d/69-urw-c059.conf: No description
+ /etc/fonts/conf.d/69-urw-d050000l.conf: No description
+ /etc/fonts/conf.d/69-urw-fallback-backwards.conf: No description
+ /etc/fonts/conf.d/69-urw-fallback-generics.conf: No description
+ /etc/fonts/conf.d/69-urw-fallback-specifics.conf: No description
+ /etc/fonts/conf.d/69-urw-gothic.conf: No description
+ /etc/fonts/conf.d/69-urw-nimbus-mono-ps.conf: No description
+ /etc/fonts/conf.d/69-urw-nimbus-roman.conf: No description
+ /etc/fonts/conf.d/69-urw-nimbus-sans.conf: No description
+ /etc/fonts/conf.d/69-urw-p052.conf: No description
+ /etc/fonts/conf.d/69-urw-standard-symbols-ps.conf: No description
+ /etc/fonts/conf.d/69-urw-z003.conf: No description
+ /etc/fonts/conf.d/80-delicious.conf: No description
+ /etc/fonts/conf.d/90-synthetic.conf: No description
+ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf: Default configuration file
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/05-reset-dirs-sample.conf: Re-define fonts dirs sample
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/09-autohint-if-no-hinting.conf: Enable autohinter if font doesn't have any hinting
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-autohint.conf: Enable autohinter
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-hinting-full.conf: Set hintfull to hintstyle
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-hinting-medium.conf: Set hintmedium to hintstyle
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-hinting-none.conf: Set hintnone to hintstyle
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-hinting-slight.conf: Set hintslight to hintstyle
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-no-sub-pixel.conf: Disable sub-pixel rendering
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf: Bitmap scaling
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-bgr.conf: Enable sub-pixel rendering with the BGR stripes layout
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf: Enable sub-pixel rendering with the RGB stripes layout
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-vbgr.conf: Enable sub-pixel rendering with the vertical BGR stripes layout
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-vrgb.conf: Enable sub-pixel rendering with the vertical RGB stripes layout
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-unhinted.conf: Disable hinting
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/11-lcdfilter-default.conf: Use lcddefault as default for LCD filter
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/11-lcdfilter-legacy.conf: Use lcdlegacy as default for LCD filter
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/11-lcdfilter-light.conf: Use lcdlight as default for LCD filter
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/20-unhint-small-vera.conf: Disable hinting for Bitstream Vera fonts when the size is less than 8ppem
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/25-unhint-nonlatin.conf: Disable hinting for CJK fonts
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/30-metric-aliases.conf: Set substitutions for similar/metric-compatible families
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/35-lang-normalize.conf: No description
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/40-nonlatin.conf: Set substitutions for non-Latin fonts
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/45-generic.conf: Set substitutions for emoji/math fonts
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/45-latin.conf: Set substitutions for Latin fonts
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/49-sansserif.conf: Add sans-serif to the family when no generic name
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/50-user.conf: Load per-user customization files
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/51-local.conf: Load local customization file
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/60-generic.conf: Set preferable fonts for emoji/math fonts
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/60-latin.conf: Set preferable fonts for Latin
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/65-fonts-persian.conf: No description
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/65-khmer.conf: No description
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/65-nonlatin.conf: Set preferable fonts for non-Latin
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/69-unifont.conf: No description
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/69-urw-bookman.conf: No description
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/69-urw-c059.conf: No description
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/69-urw-d050000l.conf: No description
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/69-urw-fallback-backwards.conf: No description
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/69-urw-fallback-generics.conf: No description
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/69-urw-fallback-specifics.conf: No description
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/69-urw-gothic.conf: No description
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/69-urw-nimbus-mono-ps.conf: No description
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/69-urw-nimbus-roman.conf: No description
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/69-urw-nimbus-sans.conf: No description
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/69-urw-p052.conf: No description
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/69-urw-standard-symbols-ps.conf: No description
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/69-urw-z003.conf: No description
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf: Reject bitmap fonts
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf: Accept bitmap fonts
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/80-delicious.conf: No description
- /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/90-synthetic.conf: No description

Last edited by Freder (2021-07-18 10:45:31)

seth · 2021-07-19 11:54:46

Nope.
Are only monospace fonts affected?

fc-match -s monospace

Freder · 2021-07-19 12:04:23

I don't think only monospace fonts are affected, even here on the arch forum I can see this happening.

------screenshot-------
disaligned text image
---------------------------

However, it is most noticeable with monospace.

fc-match -s monospace

NimbusMonoPS-Regular.otf: "Nimbus Mono PS" "Regular"
FreeMono.otf: "FreeMono" "Regular"
FreeSans.otf: "FreeSans" "Regular"
FreeSerif.otf: "FreeSerif" "Regular"
SourceCodePro-Regular.otf: "Source Code Pro" "Regular"
D050000L.otf: "D050000L" "Regular"
Cantarell-Regular.otf: "Cantarell" "Regular"

Last edited by Freder (2021-07-19 12:06:38)

seth · 2021-07-19 12:15:42

What if you remove the "gsfonts" package?

Freder · 2021-07-19 12:22:16

Oh my god, it worked, thank you!

What was that package doing wrong?

seth · 2021-07-19 12:28:18

Making you use Nimbus…
Re-install the package (you'll likely need it "somehow" as dependency eg. for gimp) and configure the system to use eg. SourceSans and SourceCode as default fonts.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Font_c … ault_fonts

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[SOLVED] Text appears smaller than it should

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