Ugly font in firefox

[sionghua]

The fonts in firefox appear ugly, is there a way to improve it? I think may be it needs some smoothing etc...

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sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

Also check what your default font is under Edit->Preferences->Content Tab. This is the font that firefox will use if the page doesn't specify one.

[sionghua]

found the solution, went to system, appearance - fonts - subpixel smoothing, then restart firefox.

[bapoumba]

Moved to Desktop Environments.

[theduffman]

for me, ive found the msfonts do a poor job on some sites, so ive set FF to use FreeSans/FreeSerif/FreeMono, looks a lot better imo, ive also set them for desktop too..

[Yashiro]

Get 'Droid' and Macfonts.

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Get 'Droid' and Macfonts.

I tried Droid for a while, but it never seems to look as good as bitstream vera sans.

Does libfreetype come compiled with truetype bci in ubuntu?

[Yashiro]

RGBA Droid with slight hinting looks really good here. Almost on par with my Mac.

[sionghua]

firefox now looks fine, however openoffice seems to ignore subpixel smoothing in its UI.

[theduffman]

firefox now looks fine, however openoffice seems to ignore subpixel smoothing in its UI.

gedit ~/.fonts.conf


<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="autohint" >
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
<const>none</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
<const>hintnone</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>

try that

[sionghua]

Thanks, tried that but still the same, it's OO 3.0 here.

[theduffman]

Thanks, tried that but still the same, it's OO 3.0 here.

well thats how ive got fonts configured and i think its looks ok..
try those, font sizes are your own choice, depending on screen size etc.. oo2 default 8.10 here btw