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solarwind

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From: Toronto

Registered: 2008-03-18

Posts: 546

Hard To Read, Low Contrast Fonts

I have a problem: my system is showing me hard to read, low contrast fonts.

Here's a screenshot to prove it:

As you can see, the fonts are quite greyish instead of black. I tried the freetype2-lcd method as described in the wiki "Fonts" article. Still no success. I'm running XFCE on a 1680x1050 LCD display. Is there a way to fix this problem?

bender02

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

Re: Hard To Read, Low Contrast Fonts

Seems to me like a problem with your gtk theme - have you tried chaning to something else? (than murrine?)

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: Hard To Read, Low Contrast Fonts

Bender02 is right -- openoffice adjusts its own colors to match the colors of the gtk theme by default.  The easy solution, for openoffice, is to go to Tools/Options/Appearance and set the background color to white and font color to black -- or whatever you like.

Last edited by fwojciec (2008-04-16 00:05:44)

solarwind

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From: Toronto

Registered: 2008-03-18

Posts: 546

Re: Hard To Read, Low Contrast Fonts

Seems to me like a problem with your gtk theme - have you tried chaning to something else? (than murrine?)

I switched to clearlooks and the fonts are beautiful! Thanks!!!!

solarwind

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From: Toronto

Registered: 2008-03-18

Posts: 546

Re: Hard To Read, Low Contrast Fonts

I also enabled RGB sub pixel hinting for my fonts and they are amazingggggggggGGG! Thanks a lot guys!

Last edited by solarwind (2008-04-16 00:11:40)

solarwind

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From: Toronto

Registered: 2008-03-18

Posts: 546

Re: Hard To Read, Low Contrast Fonts

Nevermind, clearlooks is nice, but horribly slow. I just changed all the font values in my murrine theme to #000000 and it works perfectly!