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On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote: |
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> Robin Atwood wrote: |
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>> Recently freshmeat (http://freshmeat.net/) updated its look and now I find |
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>> the fonts very hard to read. It seems like they are not being rendered with |
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>> anti-aliasing. Linux Journal (http://www.linuxjournal.com/) seems to have |
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>> the same problem. It makes no difference whether I use Firefox or Konqueror, |
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>> the appearance is the same. How can I find out what font is being used and |
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>> maybe substitute it with CSS? |
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> The solution is to substitute them with another font (I use DejaVu, Sans or |
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> Serif, according to whether the original has serifs or not). Put this in |
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> /etc/fonts/local.conf: |
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(snip) |
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> Also, it helps to enable the "cleartype" USE flab of cairo (for Firefox, |
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> Thunderbird, and other Gtk apps; vastly better fonts here with that USE |
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> flag; it's a nice patch from Arch Linux and fortunately someone added it to |
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> Portage). |
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Thanks for the great tips. I don't know if it was the cleartype USE |
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flag or the local.conf, but after doing both of these my web fonts |
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look a lot better in Firefox and Seamonkey. |
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