Increasing font rendering
Paul Smith
phhs80 at gmail.com
Sat Apr 19 14:55:14 UTC 2008
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> > he situation is better, but still far from what it was before: the way
> > Firefox renders the fonts is rather mediocre. I have tried all
> > suggestion that you gave me, but the progress is not perfect. Any
> > further ideas? Regarding fonts everything was fine till I Installed
> > msttcorefonts and rebooted.
>
> Well, have you tried removing those fonts? I've found some Microsoft
> fonts to be rather poor looking. Likewise if I've installed some other
> fonts that didn't come with Linux.
>
> Usually, we don't have them, and our browsers will use whatever font it
> feels appropriate (which usually look good). But if a webpage calls for
> a crappy font, and you have it, it'll use it.
>
> Some fonts seem designed to look good when used with certain types of
> anti-aliasing techniques, and look bad when you don't have that type, or
> none at all. Other's seem quite good without any anti-aliasing, then
> get smudgey if you try it.
>
> I notice that the drivers for my NVidia card also add some anti-aliasing
> and softening/sharpening options. I haven't played with them much,
> other than deliberately seeing how bad they can make things look. There
> could be other factors on your computer that are making fonts look bad
> for you.
>
> Generally, I find things look very good on Fedora with the defaults, a
> bit better when I played with the font rendering options. Firefox looks
> a bit worse, but not staggeringly. Likewise with Opera, it seems that
> quite a few web browsers do their own font rendering, independently of
> the system. Medium weight fonts look a bit worse than normal or bold,
> likewise with certain sizes.
>
> They look a lot better on a CRT screen than LCD, and that's because the
> LCDs are a lower resolution and unable to smooth across pixels in the
> way that CRTs do naturally.
Thanks to all for your replies and patience. Tim's reply hinted to me
the solution: something was left on my system after 'yum remove
msttcorefonts'. Indeed, I still had msttcorefonts on my system (
learned that through 'locate andale' with a previous 'updatedb'). Now
that I have removed every trace of msttcorefonts, I see fonts rendered
with supreme quality on my LCD screen, even on Thunderbird and
Firefox.
Paul
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list