HOWTO: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.

[Can0n]

Cant someone upload a before and after screenshot?

[XTREEM|RAGE]

men it really looks sexy! Tnx!

[r0ydster]

Finally!!

This makes it look like clear-type in winblows.

Very nice - good find!.

MIke

[burnt water]

Cant someone upload a before and after screenshot?

Agreed.

[mack1082]

Looks much better now. Thanks for the tip.

[Garret88]

It works perfectly: i see the difference

[r0ydster]

I have before and after shots of Firefox:

Before:



After:




Mike

[huygens]

What's amazing is this thread was started in 2004, and today in May 2007 people are still posting "awesome!", and it's still not a feature of gnome-font-properties.

I think you did not see the option in the Font properties then. I'm using Ubuntu 7.04 and I can modify the hinting within System -> Preferences -> Font. Just click on the "Details" button and you will be able to change the hinting of the fonts.

So this was applicable in 2004 and nowadays you can use a nice GUI for that.

Btw, I do not have a .fonts.conf in my home directory, and my fonts look like they are properly hinted, just like on the various screenshot of this thread.

[Enverex]

Agreed, I just choose "Best Shapes" (or was it contrast) in Gnome's Font thing and they look fine... not quite sure why no-one else can do that...

[Lou Quillio]

Seems like Gnome trumps .fonts.conf with similarly-behaved prefs stored in gconf keys -- which won't help folks who use XFCE. What the world could really use is a GUI tool for configuring .fonts.conf et al., and a way to opt-out of your desktop environment's closed scheme. Sounds like a job for FreeDesktop.org.

LQ