Forget everything you read about fonts on Debian. To make them look normal, perfect, nice or whatever adjective you fancy, take a look at the Debian Wiki.
https://wiki.debian.org/Fonts#Subpixel- ... -smoothing
There is no magic, no mystery.
I would only recommend to set some variables:
- hinting should be slight
- antialiasing should be on and set to rgb
- dpi should be 96 on laptops, may vary
In every Desktop Environment you can tweak those settings or from the CLI. Though in Gnome use the tweak tool. It probably applies to Ubuntu's Unity, too, if that is what your heart desires but there the settings above are the default. That is why Ubuntu and Mint look good out of the box.
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cool, good man.
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Re: Black Ivan's Font Task Force (revisited)
Nice guide ivan, Once freetype-2.7 hit the sid repo, i'll go back to the vanilla route again.
I'll just leave this here, in case someone wants to use infinality patch on debian
https://github.com/BubuXP/infinality-deb
I'll just leave this here, in case someone wants to use infinality patch on debian
https://github.com/BubuXP/infinality-deb
rice no more.
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Re: Black Ivan's Font Task Force (revisited)
^ At least something slightly newer.
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Re: Black Ivan's Font Task Force (revisited)
+1 for all ... thanks for the update ivanov!
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Re: Black Ivan's Font Task Force (revisited)
Much appreciated ivan :)
thanks for the infinality link frank. It's a good find :)
thanks for the infinality link frank. It's a good find :)
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