Fonts and LCD antialiasing

[Marius Gedminas]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 06:30:47PM +0100, Rune Maagensen wrote:
> I've just apt-get upgraded and now the font's are kinda messed up.
> 
> They used to look good, but now there's a hint of color all over, 
> especially the bold fonts are ugly. I've tried changing from sans to 
> Bitstream Sans, but it's the same.

I had the same problem.  Solution: enable subpixel rendering and disable
autohinting, as the latter doesn't work well with the former.  You
should be able to do that with dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig, but it
didn't work for me.  I just edited /etc/fonts/local.conf manually and
now it looks like:

  <?xml version="1.0"?>
  <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
  <fontconfig>
    <include ignore_missing="yes">/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/fonts.conf</include>
  <!-- Uncomment below to enable bitmapped fonts -->
    <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir>
    <match target="font">
      <test qual="all" name="rgba">
        <const>unknown</const>
      </test>
      <edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit>
    </match>
  <!-- Uncomment below to enable the freetype autohinter module -->
  <!--
    <match target="font">
      <edit name="autohint" mode="assign">
        <bool>true</bool>
      </edit>
    </match>
  -->
  </fontconfig>

HTH,
Marius Gedminas
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