HOWTO: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.

[twigilicious]

Fantastic. I already had the TTF fonts installed but they stilled looked kind of crappy. The fix made everything wonderful. Awesome.

[Lovechild]

/me quickly reverts to standard Hoary fonts.conf -- this is horrible, so blurry and nasty..

begun ugly fonts!

[Sham]

Dude, you seem to be a guy in the know. Can I point you to a thread here plz;

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=12674

My fonts seem blurred around the edges to me. I would really like to have it back the way it was with KDE under FC3 where the black on white contrast is high without loss of definition (and the fonts are BLACK, not this kind of grey I'm seeing here. I've been at my computer for 8 hours, and my head is killing me

I've tried the options under Computer -> DEsktop Prefs > Fonts, but nothing seems to help I also turned off antialising too. Again, no joy.

Cheers

[nikopol]

Nice one mate - I had messed up my fonts - they've become really low res and I just couldn't get them back to the correct setting despite loads of attempts (I think due to installing K3b) but that little file sorted everything back again. Top tip

[ks-]

I've tried to install this script as told in the first post.

Since then, everytime I log into Gnome, a popup tells me "you have to be root to run this" or smth, and it opens Synaptic. And of course I don't see any changes regarding my fonts.

Anyone can help me out with this ?

[ks-]

OK I've tried to do "sudo dkpg-configure fontconfig" too and still ugly.

I hate this

[Yukonjack]

Drop this file in your home directory renamed to ".fonts.conf" and log out and in again. It turns on auto hinting and makes your fonts sexy smooth.

Thank you it works great
Also fix that annoying little letter x on my browsers.

[wernst]

This is definately a "your milage may vary" sort of thing.

On my laptop's LCD running at 1400x1050, the orignal fonts look very smooth, and honestly, better than Windows XP. With the new file, the fonts look more muddled and you start to see werid aliased-color-hinting between characters.

The before-and-after screenshot is very representative: the "before" side on the right looks MUCH BETTER on my LCD.

Anyway, thanks for the tip. I'll try it on my CRT later...

-Warr

[foobar]

i put and renamed the file in the home dir, restarted x but, nothing changed... what else do i need to do?

[caiphn]

Makes a huge difference. Weird thing is when I CTRL+ALT+Backspaced, I lost all GUI. Logged in with username and password and went straight to Bash.. wasn't sure how to start up Gnome again.. or if that is even what I'd want to do at that point.