On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 03:27:50PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: > On 2/19/20 2:56 PM, Collin Guan via blfs-support wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I installed Firefox. When I open our great BLFS and LFS books, all pages > > are very fuzzy. I tried to adjust the fonts available in "Preferences" > > -> "Language and Appearance" -> "Fonts and Colors" in Firefox. My > > question is, which font should I choose in "Default font" to make our > > books more clear? From the above font list, I have: > > > > serif > > Caladea > > Cantarell > > Carlito > > Courier > > DejaVu Sans, Sans Mono, Serif > > FreeMono > > FreeSans > > FreeSerif > > Gelasio > > Helvetica
Which Helvetica ? If that is the Type 1 font then I have not used it in years, and it might not be as clear as TTF and OTF fonts. > > Liberation Mono, Sans, Serif > > Luxi Mono, Sans, Serif > > New Century Schoolbook > > Note Sans, Serif > > Oxygen Mono, Sans > > Times > > Utopia > > > > I think these are all the fonts I have installed. Let me know if I'm > > missing something here. Other websites look just fine. Check your preferences in firefox (Fonts and then click on Advanced). I would expect that LFS and BLFS are using Sans (and that that maps to DejaVu Sans) and Monospace for the code. But I install various CJK fonts on different machines, and I've known firefox to decide to use CJK fonts (mostly those are serif, and coverage beyond English can be poor, with fallback picking up DejaVu Sans in my case). > > For my default font, I use Oxygen-Sans Size 13. > > Advanced: Fonts for Latin: > Proportional: Serif 13 > Serif: Oxygen-Sans > Sans-serif: Default (DejaVu Sans) > Monospace: Default (DejaVu Sans Mono) 12 > > Minimum font size: none > > Your choices may be different, but that's a reasonable staring point. > > -- Bruce I think 'fuzzy' implies a possible problem with fontconfig. See the Hinting and Anti-aliasing section of 'tuning-fontconfig'. ISTR spikey had problems with the defaults in the past. For me the defaults seem ok, but it probably depends on the monitor and it might be that people whose vision is better than mine notice things I don't notice. For me, the bigger problem on (cheap) monitors is that text in webpages is pale, and that is much improved by reducing the brightness with xrandr (I have settings for 0.3 on eDP in the laptop to save battery life, and variously 1|0.85|0.7 on an Asus monitor, respectively in .xinitrc and .bashrc. For a better monitor (Dell in my case) I just turn down the settings on the monitor controls so it doesn't try to burn my eyeballs out ;-) I tend to use different fonts on different machines, just because I can. Some of my machines use the following defaults, but obviosuly Serif isn't used in LFS or BLFS and I allow other sites to set their own fonts. laptop (currently still running 8.4!) - Sans Tex Gyre Heros 16pt (an alternative for Helvetica) Mono DejaVu Sans Mono 12pt Serif FreeSerif 16pt My only desktop machine currently on 9.1 - Sans Liberation Sans 16pt Mono Liberation Mono 12pt Serif Liberation Serif 16pt And FWIW these all tend to be on the small side on modern desktop screens! A machine on the Dell monitor - I can afford a taller firefox window because this monitor is 24" 1920x1280, I don't like browsers using the whole screen ;-) with LFS and BLFS from November with security upgrades, e.g. for firefox - Sans DejaVu Sans 18pt Mono Liberation Mono 12pt Serif DejaVu Serif 18pt ĸen -- We hope and trust that our valued and loyal customers will bear with us in the coming months as we interact synergistically with change management in our striving for excellence. That is our mission. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
