• Registered: 2009-12-06
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Re: font subpixel smoothing

I'm a newbie. Thanks to "anonymous", I can soothe my eyes! I did not have a .conf file. I just copied the entries into a new .conf file as posted by anonymous and the fonts are much better.

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  • Registered: 2009-03-20
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Re: font subpixel smoothing

crazybilly wrote:

so here's how it works: the system looks first in your home directory for a file named 

.fonts.conf

. Then it looks for a file called 

/etc/fonts/local.conf

.

...<snipped>....

Wow - thank you Crazybilly for a terrific explanation of what is going on. NOW I have a clear handle on why I am seeing the mangled mess that I have currently! :-)

  • Registered: 2011-07-30
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Re: font subpixel smoothing

gnema wrote:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="rgba"><const>rgb</const></edit>
  <edit mode="assign" name="hinting"><bool>true</bool></edit>
  <edit mode="assign" name="antialias"><bool>true</bool></edit>
  <edit mode="assign" name="autohint"><bool>false</bool></edit>
  <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"><const>hintslight</const></edit>
 </match>
</fontconfig>

Dramatic improvement, especially for small fonts. 

So in this case, hinting here is true but autohint is false, that's a little confusing.  I suppose this means we specifically want "hintslight" which someone decided looks the best.

Last edited by pjbrunet (2011-07-30 09:21:56)

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Re: font subpixel smoothing

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