HOWTO: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.

[cdupree]

Worked on my Kubuntu installation too. Many thanks! My Ubuntu came this way, and I loved the fonts. I'm so glad to get Kubuntu to use them. Now I don't have any reason to go back.

[michael37]

It does look better, but I would strongly encourage all LCD users (including all notebooks users) to select

System->Preferences->Font

and select "Subpixel smoothing (LCD)" before making this change.

[cn9ne]

Wow, cool man! It looks way way better!

[LuisC-SM]

It does look better, but I would strongly encourage all LCD users (including all notebooks users) to select

System->Preferences->Font

and select "Subpixel smoothing (LCD)" before making this change.

I just have to agree. On Feisty this is just enough.... on gutsy, there is no need... everything looks so cool

[stoomaroo]

Slick...just slick.

Nice one.

Stoomaroo

[darundal]

For some reason, my Gutsy install is deleting .fonts.conf. I had it in my home directory when I upgraded, and it deleted it. I tried replacing the file, and again, it was deleted. Yes, I had view hidden files enabled. Anyone know why it is doing this?

[dgoosens]

hi,
just wanted to point out that this also works for Gutsy Gibbon...
the file is not deleted (hidden though)
great
thanks a lot !!!!!

[rykel]

Hi all,

I screwed up my Gutsy install and despite spending 20 min with dpkg-reconfigure -a the fonts in my Firefox are now skinny-scrawly (UGLY)...

How can I reset the fonts system-wide? Thanks for advice.

UPDATE: I installed msttcorefonts and it partially solved the Firefox in-screen ugly fonts problem... some are still showing up as skinny-scrawly fonts, while some others are OK... how can I reset the Firefox fonts to the default Gutsy ones?

[RebateFX]

Nice. It was just the thing to make my Ubuntu put windows to shame

[DecemberWinds]

Um... how do you access this home directory folder? sorry noob here.