I learned that the system was mapping Times and Helvetica to Nimbus equivalents, and that was messing up some websites. On-screen display of Nimbus fonts in Linux is not ideal, even if I disable hinting. They have a way to look awful. I changed the mappings to use Liberation fonts, and the result is much more harmonious text on websites. Nimbus can look really bad on small sizes.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to fontconfig in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/41411 Title: Fonts are mapped to ugly fonts (which also causes problems with OOo) Status in “fontconfig” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in “fontconfig” source package in Hardy: Invalid Bug description: /etc/fonts/fonts.conf mapps the following fonts: Times to Nimbus Roman No9 L Helvetica to Nimbus Sans L Courier to Nimbus Mono L The problem with this is that the Nimbus set of fonts renders really badly (on my machine at least). The fonts appear with blue pixels to the right of about 50% of letters. Can these be changed to map to DejaVu or Bitstream fonts instead? DejaVu and Bitstream map beautifully. I'll attach screenshots of these current fonts in action. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fontconfig/+bug/41411/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
