How did this guy get his Ubuntu fonts to look so good?

[Kernel Sanders]

**Link** (http://img325.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktopmay293og.png)

John :)

[Footissimo]

Possibly using these debs..

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=180647&highlight=font+rendering

[Kernel Sanders]

Thats so cool, why cant this be done "out of the box"?

[Footissimo]

Problems with patents and whatnot need to be cleared up first I believe :)

[CronoDekar]

I was able to get my fonts to look really good by putting this in .fonts.conf (note that the filename starts with a dot) in my /home/username and then logging back in:



<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<match target="font">
<edit name="autohint" mode="assign">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>

[ahaslam]

Thats so cool, why cant this be done "out of the box"?

I've heard a lot about Ubuntu fonts and I don't understand why.
The link that you showed looks exactly the same on my box.
Here's a screen, maybe I'm missing something.

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Tony.

PS. I assume that you're referring to the desktop fonts. I didn't see those, he's using a far higher resolution than me.

[allans]

It looks a lot like windows with a clearlooks theme to me...

[NESFreak]

my default fonts look better clearlooks suck. (i simply have best shapes selected in the font config window.)

[tageiru]

It looks a lot like windows with a clearlooks theme to me...
Yeah, that is Windows.

[TravisNewman]

It's Windows, look at the system tray. It's an Ubuntu theme, but it's not Ubuntu.

[Footissimo]

It looks a lot like windows with a clearlooks theme to me...

Doh

I've even installed the clearlooks theme on my XP partition before.

[agger]

I don't know which it is, but the fonts look exactly the same as on my Xubuntu box - even tho it appears to be Windows. :-)

Maybe it just goes to show that fonts and font quality aren't really an issue any longer?