Need help identifying why my fonts look horrible

Question

I reinstalled Arch on my desktop, but forgot to backup my font configuration files.  I had Monaco set up very nicely before, but now it looks horrible on my new install, and I can't really see what I'm doing wrong. As far as I know, I was just using the ttf-monaco, freetype2-infinality and fontconfig-infinality (w/ osx2 style) packages, and then modified the infinality.conf file (with emboldened Monaco) and Xresources.
This is what it looked like before:
http://i.imgur.com/dFJRKbt.png
This is what it looks like now:
http://i.imgur.com/QHsLTF3.png
~/.Xresources
Xft.antialias: true
Xft.hinting: false
Xft.rgba: rgb
Xft.dpi: 96
/etc/fonts/infinality/infinality.conf
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
<selectfont>
<rejectfont>
<pattern>
<patelt name="fontformat" >
<string>Type 1</string>
</patelt>
</pattern>
</rejectfont>
</selectfont>
<match target="font" >
<edit name="embeddedbitmap" mode="assign">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="pattern" >
<edit name="prefer_outline" mode="assign">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="pattern" >
<edit name="do_substitutions" mode="assign">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="pattern" >
<edit name="bitmap_monospace" mode="assign">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit name="force_autohint" mode="assign">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="pattern">
<edit name="dpi" mode="assign">
<double>96</double>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="pattern" >
<edit name="qt_use_subpixel_positioning" mode="assign">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<test name="family">
<string>Monaco</string>
</test>
<edit name="embolden" mode="assign">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<include>infinality/conf.d</include>
</fontconfig>
Also, bold isn't showing up in termite but does in gvim? Not sure why that's happening.
Last edited by mpeebles (2014-01-06 11:51:11)

Answer 1

grepping for "font" in the termite git log, I stumbled upon this:
commit a05fdcd4d15316f258175e9a526058bad2c8e7ea
Author: Simon Gomizelj <[email protected]>
Date:   Sat Nov 23 20:37:18 2013 -0500
    better warning for no browser
...skipping...
    Config option to enable/disable bold font
which suggests that a feature to do exactly that (disable bold fonts) has been introduced to the termite codebase. I haven't used termite myself, but either reverting to an older revision than a05fdcd4d15316f258175e9a526058bad2c8e7ea or just enabling bold faces through the said config option could be a solution to your problem.
Last edited by elipp (2014-01-07 19:46:22)