Thursday, December 13, 2007
Fonts looking like crap in Linux?
A big problem with Linux it's the font rendering. At some point I was convinced that no matter what I do, the Linux font's will never look as good as in Windows. I have tried switching from KDE to gnome, changing browsers, distributions, nothing seemed to help until I found this website: http://www.sharpfonts.com/. Then my fonts in Linux look the same as in Windows. Ah, almost forgot, on Firefox I have also done some little adjustments in about:config .
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I must be missing something or my brain is just different but after careful examination I find the Polished fonts more pleasing and the Sharp fonts kind of ratty looking, sort of like Windows 98. I use PCLinuxOS and all I have to do to get nice looking fonts, at least to my eye, is to adjust the anti aliasing a little. Without the anti aliasing the fonts look like Sharp fonts.
depends on the monitor you use too, you're not using LCD, do you? because on LCD sharp usually looks better
I use a Samsung SyncMaster 204B and I love it.
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