HOWTO: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.

[Anthony T.]

wow nice, it works

[kamiokande]

The preferred way to do this on gutsy is:

sudo ln -sf /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-autohint.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/

Thanks for the tip. It works really well on my desktop and most applications. However, I noticed that the fonts on some areas of the Ubuntu forums are now warped! Has anyone had this happen before?

(check out the red font on the right)

[RavUn]

Thanks for the tip. It works really well on my desktop and most applications. However, I noticed that the fonts on some areas of the Ubuntu forums are now warped! Has anyone had this happen before?

(check out the red font on the right)

That's happened to me one time before. It was REAL bad... I restarted firefox and it was fine and hasn't happened since. I had a lot of processes running and my CPU was at 100% so I don't know if that had something to do with it.

[kamiokande]

That's happened to me one time before. It was REAL bad... I restarted firefox and it was fine and hasn't happened since. I had a lot of processes running and my CPU was at 100% so I don't know if that had something to do with it.

Yea, after coming back to the site a few times, I've noticed it only happens on some occasions. Strange. I'll consider my CPU usage the next time it happens.

[jarrhed]

The best guide is the one on UbuntuSite.com, it gives fonts that are just as good as Windows and maybe even better

[dulus]

Here is guide too: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...font+rendering

[kamitsukai]

The preferred way to do this on gutsy is:

sudo ln -sf /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-autohint.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/

Oh yer yummy fonts

[aZn137]

uh-oh. i dont like the new look. how do you undo the change??

[thegizmoguy]

It's better but still doesn't look quite right (rocking the ms xp and vista fonts). If you look at the Brainstorm section I believe the font fix one has +1600.

[gakudva]

Wow! ".fonts.conf" in home directory works like charm

I have this setup since few hours now... and I am still drooling over the great looking fonts in my firefox.

thanks so much
best regards, Ganesh