what fonts should I use?

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gentoonewb39 · Post by **gentoonewb39** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 2:34 pm

What fonts look good and not like digg in the below picture (yes i have AA on)
http://img497.imageshack.us/my.php?image=carie49zw.png
also what fonts do you use on your system?

cokey · Post by **cokey** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 2:49 pm

yours look cool to me, whats wrong with them?

mark_alec · Post by **mark_alec** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 3:19 pm

Which font are you using? I find the bitstream-vera fonts to be good.

John-Boy · Post by **John-Boy** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 3:43 pm

Another vote for Bitstream-vera

DnasTheGreat · Post by **DnasTheGreat** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 3:59 pm

And another.

Although, the reason those fonts might be because they've been set to fonts that don't anti-alias. (Like Helvetica.)

I usually map those fonts to similar fonts in ~/.fonts.conf or /etc/fonts/local.conf

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    <match target="pattern" name="family">
        <test name="family" qual="any">
            <string>Helvetica</string>
            <string>Lucida</string>
        </test>
        <edit mode="assign" name="family">
            <string>sans-serif</string>
        </edit>
    </match>

will switch Helvetica and Lucida to sans-serif (which happens to be Bitstream Vera.

)

Also, I turn hinting off because I like my fonts to be almost blurry with aa.

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 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
   <bool>false</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts
for more stuff

gentoonewb39 · Post by **gentoonewb39** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 4:52 pm

I follwed the gentoo wikis guide firefox guide that you linked to and now the choppy fonts are gone thanks.

tecknojunky · Post by **tecknojunky** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 8:05 pm

gentoonewb39 wrote:I follwed the gentoo wikis guide firefox guide that you linked to and now the choppy fonts are gone thanks.

Ditto

Firefox-1.5 really ditch any previous settings.

Now I think only Flash remains to be fixed.

btw, I find forefox-1.5 much slower than 1.0.7.

morodoch · Post by **morodoch** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 8:12 pm

btw, I find forefox-1.5 much slower than 1.0.7.

Really? I find it *much* faster - especially on my work machine - which is an aging PIII 850.

tecknojunky · Post by **tecknojunky** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 8:23 pm

morodoch wrote:
btw, I find forefox-1.5 much slower than 1.0.7.
Really? I find it *much* faster - especially on my work machine - which is an aging PIII 850.

Something's fishy. I sometime get a popup messages that state that some script as gone bisirk and ask me if I want to kill it. Fasterfox will regularly crank up well over the 60 seconds... sometime 2?? seconds. I'm not enjoying any improvments at all

morodoch · Post by **morodoch** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 8:28 pm

Did you keep / migrate your old settings? Try starting from a clean set (renaming your ~/.mozilla/firefox to something will do this, then you can always move it back if it all goes horribly pear shaped

tecknojunky · Post by **tecknojunky** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 8:31 pm

morodoch wrote:Did you keep / migrate your old settings?

As a matter of fact, I did.
Your suggestion is good. I will take not of all my extensions and settings and try to recreate it. It will be a big job though

morodoch · Post by **morodoch** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 8:46 pm

Interestingly, I've just followed DnasTheGreat's tip for the font howto, and ISTM that flipping between tabs is even quicker now. In fact it's pretty much instantaneous on my home box - an AMD64 3000+.

pem · Post by **pem** » Thu May 04, 2006 8:34 pm

DnasTheGreat wrote:

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    <match target="pattern" name="family">
        <test name="family" qual="any">
            <string>Helvetica</string>
            <string>Lucida</string>
        </test>
        <edit mode="assign" name="family">
            <string>sans-serif</string>
        </edit>
    </match>

Beautifull! Big thanks!

POST EDIT:
I've tried to do the same stuff with alias but it has never worked out.

mikegpitt · Post by **mikegpitt** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 3:33 am

Excellent... after the latest Slashdot updates things looked really ugly. Now things look great!

widremann · Post by **widremann** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 1:54 pm

Get the Windows fonts. Tahoma is the best interface font I've ever seen.

mikegpitt · Post by **mikegpitt** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 6:32 pm

widremann wrote:Get the Windows fonts. Tahoma is the best interface font I've ever seen.

Do you mean media-fonts/corefonts? I had these installed and things looked fine in most cases (actually I noticed no problems for several years until just recently). The little change above made the remaining fonts look nice.

widremann · Post by **widremann** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 3:21 am

mikegpitt wrote:
widremann wrote:Get the Windows fonts. Tahoma is the best interface font I've ever seen.
Do you mean media-fonts/corefonts? I had these installed and things looked fine in most cases (actually I noticed no problems for several years until just recently). The little change above made the remaining fonts look nice.

Tahoma doesn't come in that package. If you have a Windows install, or have access to one, just copy over Tahoma.ttf (and any other Tahoma files if they exist).