On 23/11/2009 13:43, Joseph Mocker wrote: > Same here. I've gotten pretty close, but for some > foreground/background color combinations the sub-pixel rendering is > just off. > > Hillel Lubman wrote: >> The clarity of fonts in snv_127 bugs me too. I wasn't able to restore >> the system back to the clear look'n'feel it had prior to upgrade to >> snv_127. >> >> Hillel. Things look better when autohinting is switched off (for some reason with autohinting most fonts look terrible). However I like how DejaVu Sans Mono (Monospace) looks with autohinting, so I enabled it for that font specifically, so it looks more like before snv_127 by default).
~/.fonts.conf: <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> <!-- See samples at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_Configuration --> <fontconfig> <match target="font"> <edit name="autohint" mode="assign"><bool>false</bool></edit> </match> <match target="font" > <test name="family"> <string>DejaVu Sans Mono</string> </test> <edit name="autohint" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit> <edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit> </match> </fontconfig> Found some nice examples here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_Configuration Regards, Hillel.
