Antialiased Fonts
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Another question. With Windows, I was able to turn off cleartype/anti-aliasing and have my fonts look crisp and clear. When I turn it off in GNU/Linux (Trisquel) I cannot find a font that is crisp and clear. They are kind of off. Are there any legacy Linux fonts maybe that would look better in a non-antialiased environment. I really don't like sub-pixel rendering I think looks terrible.
Thanks again.
Jason
Anti-aliasing is a technique to hide the fact that the text is made up of square pixels, which means without anti-aliasing, it will not generally look good, especially when the font size and monitor resolution is low. Larger text will be less affected. Personally, I wouldn't recommend not using anti-aliasing if you want the text to look nice.
In any case, I see some that don't look too bad without anti-aliasing, including Cantarell, the Droid fonts, and the DejaVu fonts. Have you looked at those?
By the way, just want to mention: none of these are "Linux" fonts. I don't think any of them were developed for the kernel Linux and not many of them were even developed for the operating system GNU. Most were developed independently by others and are included with many GNU/Linux distributions because they are good fonts under free licenses.
Thank you onpon4, I will give them a try.
I just know that most fonts in Windows look better with anti-aliasing off. The subpixel rendering blurs the font, looking at fonts pixel by pixel is crisper and sharper. And anyway to eliminate the blur would be great. I know that GNU/Linux at one time did not have sub-pixel rendering like all other OS's I just want that back.
Grimlok
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If you are using GNOME (which, by the way, is a GNU project), (install and) run "gnome-tweak-tool", go to "Fonts" and be happy -- you can change fonts and their rendering.
KDE has some utility to do this; go to System Settings and search for it.
Just an update on this. I did some digging around and found a solution to the anti-aliasing problem I have (Problem being that I hate ant-aliasing and having blurry fonts) Anyways, I found that if you go to (System Settings -> Advanced Settings -> Fonts) and turn off (Hinting) and (Anti-aliasing) you will successful get the Main OS to have no anti-aliasing, but that leave some other programs with it left on such as Abrowser.
To turn off anti-aliasing in Abrowser and I assume other programs one has to go to your etc\fonts\conf.d\ folder and find the file 10-antialias.conf and change the setting from "true" to "false".
That's it, hope anyone else who likes sharp fonts enjoys this!
Now to find an old school set of fonts that look good like this. Any suggestions would be nice ;-)
Grimlok
> etc\fonts\conf.d\ folder
I know it sounds like I'm nitpicking, but that isn't how directories are represented and can result in wrong behavior if you use it e.g. in a terminal window. The forward slash ("/") is what you use to separate directories. The backslash is very different, used to escape characters, particularly spaces (e.g. "/home/steve/My\ Folder\ With\ Spaces"). This is a very traditional usage of these characters and the only systems I'm aware of that weirdly use the backslash to separate directories are DOS and Windows.
Also, in Unix, the filesystem always starts with "/", the root directory (more or less similar to "C:\" in Windows), so the directory you are actually talking about is "/etc/fonts/conf.d".
Of course, if you already knew of this and it was a slip of... the keyboard, I guess, you can ignore this. :)
My mistake. I am coming from being a heavy Windows user, so I still look at directory/file structure with the "\" and web with the "/." Please bear with my growing pains. :-p
Grimlok
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