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Some websites (e.g. Yahoo Answers) specify "clean" in the font-family section of the CSS. The text on such websites is very small and not anti-aliased.
For a while, I thought that "clean" was a generic CSS font-family (like "sans-serif"). Today I found that I do in fact have a font called "Clean" installed on my system, and it is the same ugly font that is being displayed on these websites.
I do not remember ever seeing this font when I was using Ubuntu. Does Arch use a different "Clean" font, or is something else happening here? Is there any way I can avoid having such an ugly "Clean" font, maybe linking "Clean" to "Sans" or something like that?
Thanks in advance. Sorry if it's a strange question.
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I personally don't have this font installed, so everything looks fine for me, why don't you just remove it?
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I'm using Clean font for terminal, looks nice.
Looks like you don't have "ttf-ms-fonts" installed on your system, as Clean is sor of a fallback on their site: {..arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif...}
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this won't solve your problem, but will make your life better: prevent web sites from using their own fonts. Pick one that you like and apply it everywhere. Everything instantly looks more tolerable.
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Thanks for all the responses everybody.
I didn't want to install ttf-ms-fonts, because I'm a bit of a Stallmanite.
sudo pacman -dR xorg-fonts-misc did the trick. Seems that this is because answers.yahoo.com specifies sans-serif after clean. When there's no "Clean" font installed, it falls back to sans. I am just a bit concerned, though, because xorg-fonts-misc is a dependency of xorg-server. Does anybody know why that is?
edit: It seems xorg-server will not run without xorg-fonts-misc. So uninstalling that package would not be a good solution. Does anybody have any other ideas? Would there be a way to link the font "Clean" to "Sans" or something like that?
Last edited by jalu (2009-04-05 20:57:38)
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Couldn't a properly configured ~/.fonts.conf fix this problem? I seem to recall the wiki mentioning how to disable an unattractive font.
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As 'peets' suggested earlier . Don't let websites decide what fonts to use . This can be easily achieved in Firefox (check the preferences) . You will need a custom style(css file) in other browsers (Opera, Midori and maybe others) .
Last edited by Nezmer (2009-04-08 15:09:24)
English is not my native language .
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Putting this in your ~/.fonts.conf (inside the <fontconfig> tags) should assure that the font is never used:
<selectfont>
<rejectfont>
<pattern>
<patelt name="family">
<string>Clean</string>
</patelt>
</pattern>
</rejectfont>
</selectfont>
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Hey guys. Sorry it's been a while.
The .fonts.conf settings provided by putte_xvi works perfectly. I have heard about fonts.conf in the past, but never used it. I will definitely be doing more research into it in the future.
Thanks everyone, especially putte_xvi, for all of your help.
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this won't solve your problem, but will make your life better: prevent web sites from using their own fonts. Pick one that you like and apply it everywhere. Everything instantly looks more tolerable.
This.
I use Terminus for all 'standard' text and monte carlo for monospace. Very, very nice.
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@putte-xvi 's suggestion still works, even after 2 years.
Thanks for the solution.
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~/.fonts.conf is deprecated. Put it in ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d
Thank you, putte-xvi!
Last edited by nicholascamp (2013-03-10 23:52:24)
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