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pm215 ([personal profile] pm215) wrote in [personal profile] simont 2005-06-12 03:26 am (UTC)

ugly fonts

I've just upgraded and I get the ugly-fonts problem too. I think the problem here is that they now use fontconfig for font selection, and none of the free fonts fontconfig wants to use are much cop. (Check fontconfig's Depends: ttf-bitstream-vera | ttf-freefont | gsfonts-x11 | msttcorefonts. The first looks horribly blurry to me, especially in mozilla menu bars. The third looks like gv's fonts (no surprise there), which seems slightly more palatable to me, but still not much good). The fourth is a wrapper package so you can use the (non-free) font files from a Windows installation. You might try faffing about installing or uninstalling some of these to see which is least worst.

This all worked perfectly well before, but I don't know how to get back to that now (it might not even be possible since probably everything wants to use antialiasing and fontconfig and xft and stuff. And if you turn antialiasing off mozilla misrenders!)


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