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Thread: Why is font rendering under Gnome so freaking ugly?

11th December 2014, 05:30 PM

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Re: Why is font rendering under Gnome so freaking ugly?

If your really don't like the GNOME font rendering check this out.
It is Silver Moon's invention, inspired by an old experiment they did on Ubuntu. Till some time in the past fonts have
always been one of the most horrible things on Linux desktops, especially Fedora/Redhat and derivatives. So they
devised some tricks.
The original work can be found here
How to get gorgeous looking fonts on ubuntu linux
Here are Silver Moon's recommendations.
1. Create a file named .fonts.conf inside the home directory and fill it with the font configuration found here
https://gist.github.com/silv3rm00n/5599072
2. Go to Settings > Appearances and set the font size to 9.
Reduce the font size of the Terminal to 10pt.
3. Download the following font packages from the Fedora repositories:
open-sans-fonts
google-noto-serif-fonts
google-noto-sans-fonts
google-droid-serif-fonts
google-droid-sans-fonts
google-droid-sans-mono-fonts
4. Go to "Applications > Settings > Appearance" : Fonts tab, and enable anti-aliasing with hinting level Medium and
subpixel order of RGB.
5. Jump off and login back and your fonts should now have a better appearance.
Okay, the word better is much about perspective, but I could see a huge improvement on LCDs atleast as far as
readability and looks are concerned.
The above is taken from this article about XFCE but should work fine in GNOME too. I have used it on MATE and
LXDE.
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