Ubuntu Smooth Fonts on Fedora

[Tim]

On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 10:31 -0300, Israel Lopes dos Santos wrote:
> I've installed Fedora 14 on my laptop and notice that the fonts are
> not smooth like my other Ubuntu installation.
>  
> Tried to tweak the font on Gnome Appearance, but no really success.
> Also tried some tutorials on the internet that not helped but not
> reached the smooth that I wanted.
>  
> There is some way to get smooth fonts like ubuntu on my fedora?

Experiment...

There's several things behind why some font looks better than another on
your computer:

Your screen resolution (setting the graphics rendering to match your
display, i.e. if your screen is 1080 by 800 pixels, then set the display
settings to be exactly the same).  And choosing a DPI setting that's
actually the same as your screen.  Some people play silly games with a
malset DPI to change font sizes, and it's possible to set things to a
lower resolution than the display actually uses, so you end up with
chunky fonts.

The particular font, itself.  Some designs look better, and some have
extra hinting information so they look better on low resolution screens
(compared to other things, like printing on paper, the screen is very
low resolution, e.g. it might be 96 DPI versus 600 DPI).  Not to mention
the type of fonts (fixed bitmap versus various different types of
scalable fonts).

The font size you pick.  Certain sizes render better than others,
particularly as you only have a few pixels available to draw the lines,
at normal screen font sizes.

The weight you pick.  The same as the above reason (small text, not many
pixels available to draw it).  Some fonts may be more readable as bold
or normal weight, at the usual screenfont sizes.

The rendering engine.  Some rendering engines are much better than
others at making text look nice on low resolution displays.  I'm not
sure how much choice you have at using a different scheme, though it's
possible that KDE versus Gnome might do it differently.  And it's
certainly the case that some programs render their own text differently
than the system, such as some web browsers.

The anti-aliasing options you pick.  You should pick one appropriate to
the type of screen you have, and your preferences for how much
anti-aliasing should be used, and which methods.

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