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What Linux distribution did you use? In my experience the font rendering in the common distributions, like Ubuntu, is rather good these days. Personally I use D
by augustk 10y ago
What Linux distribution did you use? In my experience the font rendering in the common distributions, like Ubuntu, is rather good these days. Personally I use Debian stable with a simple window manager (Blackbox) and no X display manager. In this case I need to set a few variables in ~/.Xresources to get good results:
Xft.antialias: true
Xft.autohint: false
Xft.dpi: 100
Xft.hinting: true
Xft.hintstyle: hintslight
Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault
Xft.rgba: rgb
- gdamjan1 10y agomost modern apps use fontconfig to, well, configure fonts, and afaik ignore these Xft X resources. So something like this is needed in ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf: <?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="hintstyle"><const>hintfull</const></edit> <edit mode="assign" name="antialias"><bool>true</bool></edit> <edit name="lcdfilter" mode="assign"><const>lcddefault</const></edit> </match> </fontconfig>