[SOLVED] FontConfig Update and Anti-Aliasing

Question

After doing upgrade of fontconfig exactly like explained on news here;
http://www.archlinux.org/news/fontconfi … -required/
Font became too thin, I think anti-aliasing is working wrong now. I've even added this:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … igurations
Also, my appearance settings is:
Default Font: Sans / Size: 10
Rendering: Enabled anti-aliasing
Hinting: Full
Sub-pixel order: None
DPI: Custom DPI setting 96
Here is few examples:
ArchLinux.org -- http://i.imgur.com/O7ZEC.png
Google.com -- http://i.imgur.com/TaY5S.png
Slashdot.org -- http://i.imgur.com/U8Oto.png
Digg.com -- http://i.imgur.com/TtgsM.png
Is there anyhting else I can do to fix this ?
Last edited by TuxLyn (2012-09-08 04:41:23)

Answer 1

My fonts were also looking bad after the upgrade (the same as in your screenshots), what I did:
mv .fontconfig .config/fontconfig
mv .fonts.conf .config/fontconfig/fonts.conf
mkdir .config/fontconfig/conf.d
ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf .config/fontconfig/conf.d ## Though this wasn't really necessary.
Moved all cache files from .config/fontconfig (formerly ~/.fontconfig) to ~/.cache, as suggested in the wiki.
And I copied this in my fonts.conf (.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf), examples you can also find in the wiki:
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="autohint"> <bool>true</bool></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="hinting"> <bool>false</bool></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter"> <const>lcddefault</const></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"> <const>hintslight</const></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias"> <bool>true</bool></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="rgba"> <const>rgb</const></edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<test name="pixelsize" qual="any" compare="more"><double>15</double></test>
<edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter"><const>lcdlight</const></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"><const>hintnone</const></edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<test name="weight" compare="more"><const>medium</const></test>
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"><const>hintnone</const></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter"><const>lcdlight</const></edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<test name="slant" compare="not_eq"><double>0</double></test>
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"><const>hintnone</const></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter"><const>lcdlight</const></edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit name="antialias" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
<edit name="hinting" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
<edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign"><const>hintfull</const></edit>
<edit name="lcdfilter" mode="assign"><const>lcddefault</const></edit>
<edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>
Now my fonts look like before, and Chromium looks even better, thanks to one of the examples found.