Ugly fonts in some webpages

Hi there,
First of all, hi. I used Arch some time ago but never registered in these forums. Then I moved to Slackware, got tired of no automatic pkg dependency and came back to Arch. Home, sweet home.
Once I got my fresh installation (plus X and my WM) I decided to install some fonts to correctly display webpages. To do so, I installed the following fonts from AUR:
ttf-google-fonts-git 20130818-1
ttf-mac-fonts 1-7
ttf-ms-webfonts 2.0-3
I thought this would be enought but as it turns out it isn't. Look at how GitHub is rendered, what are those fonts! http://i.imgur.com/qONOkw2.png
Any ideas of what can I do to improve this experience? Also, I think it'd be good a subsection in the "Fonts" wiki page indicating what are the necessary fonts to correctly view websites (unless you're using Lynx, of course).
Regards,
Tranga
Last edited by tranga (2013-09-03 19:35:28)

If don't mind a nuclear-like solution, you can disable all bitmaps:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … tmap_fonts
I use this in my ~/.fonts.conf to stop bitmap fonts from being used but still allowing Terminus:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>

<selectfont>
<acceptfont>
<pattern>
<patelt name="family"> <string>Terminus</string> </patelt>
</pattern>
</acceptfont>
<rejectfont>
<pattern>
<patelt name="scalable"> <bool>false</bool> </patelt>
</pattern>
</rejectfont>
</selectfont>
</fontconfig>

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