Re: How to get better looking fonts

[Dotan Cohen]

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 21:57, Nikolaus Rath  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I pulled myself together and worked around the LVM problem and the rest
> of the installation actually worked fine.
>
> Now I'm wondering if there is a way to get the font rendering to look
> different. I followed all the instructions on
> http://fedorasolved.org/Members/khaytsus/improve-fonts/, but the fonts
> look pretty much unchanged:
>
> http://www.rath.org/res/fedora.png
>
> I would like them to look more like this:
>
> http://www.rath.org/res/ubuntu.png
>
> Any recommendations?

I use this on my Ubuntu box, it has been a while since I've been on
Fedora and I don't remember if it was different then:
✈ganymede:~$ cat .fonts.conf
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="autohint">
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
<match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="rgba">
   <const>none</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="hinting">
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
   <const>hintslight</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <dir>~/.fonts</dir>
</fontconfig>