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Mr Green

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

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Font issue

Hi,

I currently run sans font for everything on desktop, got new monitor and res went up to 1680 x 1050 now fonts look awful...

Other than increasing size are there any better fonts out there that would be more readable?

MrG

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Mr Green

firecat53

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From: Lake Stevens, WA, USA

Registered: 2007-05-14

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Re: Font issue

Inconsolata scales up nicely, I think....very readable from small to large. I patched dwm with xft support just so I could use that font

Scott

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Tyriel

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2009-01-20

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Re: Font issue

Are you using Fonts with LCD filter enabled?  If not follow the instructions in the link below on the wiki for a very noticeable difference.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fon … er_enabled

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Mr Green

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Re: Font issue

Yeah got lcd enabled will check out link thanks

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Mr Green

Gen2ly

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From: Sevierville, TN

Registered: 2009-03-06

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Re: Font issue

Be sure your X server is getting your new monitor DPI right:

Fonts and DPI

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Setting Up a Scripting Environment | Proud donor to wikipedia - link

Mr Green

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Re: Font issue

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/6036/s … ot1sns.png

dpi seems to be correct, fonts could be a little larger....

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Mr Green