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Spoon

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Blurry fonts in terminal [SOLVED]

I don't know whether i'm overreacting but i think my fonts are blurrier than they should be when using them in the terminal

anyway i've used the default fontconfig which is setup by arch however i decided i wanted a new terminal (urxvt) font so this is me using inconsolata which i installed from the repos. I'v looked at the font config page on the archwiki however no matter what i do to the newly created ~/.fonts.conf it seems to make it worse. I've also noticed that the fonts in X are antialiased yet i don't see any antialias=true in the /etc/fonts/fonts.conf or a similar location, so i'm wondering where this was.

Last edited by Spoon (2010-07-31 15:30:29)

jasonwryan

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Re: Blurry fonts in terminal [SOLVED]

You can set aliasing in your .Xdefaults http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xde … t_Settings

FWIW, much as I love inconsolata, I could never get it to look as crisp as I would have liked. Try Droid sans mono slashed/dotted...

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brebs

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Re: Blurry fonts in terminal [SOLVED]

Try better fontconfig.

Spoon

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Re: Blurry fonts in terminal [SOLVED]

@brebs
Which specific post are you refering to?

unrelated: in my first post I said that when you install the vanilla fontconfig with arch it seems to have antialiasing as default, where' the file that tells fonts to do this?

brebs

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Re: Blurry fonts in terminal [SOLVED]

I was referring to freetype2-infinality.

Look in /etc/fonts/conf.d/ and /etc/fonts/fonts.conf

Spoon

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Re: Blurry fonts in terminal [SOLVED]

Thanks for the help guys but i think it might be my eyes - i'm going to see if I can find a bitmap font which I like of try a different font entrirely.