new monitor --> bad fonts?

[thufir]

On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 10:20:53 +0100, Colin Law wrote:

> On 28 September 2014 09:34, thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
>> My old benq monitor died, forget the model number, so I'm now using a
>> Samsung 713N.  However, I notice that fonts no longer display as
>> nicely.
>>
>> Is it possible that this is a hardware problem with the computer?  Or,
>> is it resolution?
>>
>> Even nicer, would be just install fonts.  However, everything looked
>> nicer on the old monitor, leading me to think it's either a setting, or
>> possibly hardware.
>>
>> I'm on Ubuntu 14.04.
> 
> Can you give us a bit of a screen shot to show what you mean?  I would
> have expected Fonts in, for example, LibreOffice or a browser, to look
> exactly the same.
> 
> Colin



link to screenshot:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5hKxkS1VyAxZXQyVDU1TDJINzQ/edit?
usp=sharing

when I zoom in, the fonts look fine, no distortion.  However, web pages 
in particular are not easily readable -- at least, not as they were with 
the previous monitor.

I just now ran:

sudo fc-cache -f -v
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/Microsoft_Fonts


It's hard to describe, and that screenshot looks fine when I zoom in.  



-Thufir