sdm composed on 2016-11-26 23:40 (UTC-0800):
By the way, font rendering in FF on Leap 42.2 is really awful on a lot of pages, Google being one of them. The fonts are thin/ skinny, tiny, light, and hard to read.
As I wrote to Dave in his fresh thread, web pages don't always use the fonts that you have installed on your system. When encountering web pages in Firefox as above described, try toggling this setting in about:config (and reloading the page): gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled True is the default. When false it's emboldened, and the page will only use fonts actually installed on your PC.
I did a comparison on the same machine to a TW live KDE, and the fonts look more readable on TW. What gives? Do I need to change the default font sizes it FF settings?
Most web "modern" pages do their best to dictate which fonts you see. Your primary control, absent heroic measures, is over how the fonts that are actually used are rendered generally, and this tends to be diddled with from release to release and distro to distro as old font patents expire. Byte code, antialiasing, smoothing, hinting, subpixel rendering, exclude range and such, plus the screen itself, and the application's rendering engine, and personal taste, all play a part in how any given font actually looks to any given individual on any given screen. Anyone who really wants good fonts needs a "high DPI" or "HiDPI" (more accurately, high pixel density) screen, a class that starts at surprisingly little nominal increase above the historical 96 DPI standard. Even 108 DPI is quite a bit of an improvement. Some people find faking the improvement can work well enough, configuring the software to use a higher DPI than the physical pixel density of the screen, so that the software draws using more pixels than the screen itself provides, leaving it up to the screen to interpolate. e.g. force Xorg to use a DPI of 120 or 144 on a screen that is actually in the 96 class, then reconfigure nominal font sizes upward to compensate for the physically smaller fonts being rendered assuming a higher density. A 12px font on a 96 DPI screen is only 9pt physically, comprised of a character box ~6px wide by ~12px tall, a total of only 72px, but drawn to be 9pt physically on a 144DPI screen requires a 9px wide by 18px box, 162px total, 225% more than at 96, allowing much more accurate composition of any given glyph, and thus, considerably more visual appeal. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org