On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Nelson Marques
By the way, if you want to do a quick test drive to Ubuntu Font Family and see how it looks, try this:
1. wget -c http://font.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu-font-family-0.80.zip && unzip ubuntu-font-family-0.80.zip 2. su -c "mkdir /usr/share/fonts/ubuntu-font-family" && cp ubuntu-font-family-0.80/*.ttf /usr/share/fonts/ubuntu-font-family 3. cd /usr/share/fonts/ubuntu-font-family && sudo mkfontdir && sudo mkfontscale
Then configure your system to use the ubuntu fonts and don't forget to change the aliasing to RGB; see how it looks :) You can pretty much do the same for the .ttf fonts fonts from Windows. Let us know of the achievements and if this changes or not the user experience...
Thanks for the pointer, I somehow assumed that the SourceSans fonts supported this. The ubuntu fonts look quite nice ; I could see an improvement already after logging in without switching to MS or Ubuntu fonts. Out of curiosity, is there a simple test to see if a font supports sub-pixel hinting? Robert
NM
2012/8/28 Nelson Marques
: And 'anti-aliasing' should be RGB :)
2012/8/28 Nelson Marques
: You need to make sure that the fonts do support the hinting; like I said previously, the only ones I know that can take up to the full extent of this are the Microsoft fonts and the Ubuntu Font Family.
Most of the fonts around don't really support this to full extent. Try with a font that support it's it please and see if it helps :)
NM
2012/8/28 Robert Munteanu
: Hi Nelson,
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Nelson Marques
wrote: Just install this two packages on this repo and relog... Then let us know if you see any improvement.
I have the two packages a try and the improvements are clearly visible. There's one note from me though, the default 'sans-serif' font seems to be a serif one and I can't find a way to correct it.
I've attached an example from Firefox ( although I see it in system dialogs as well ) and my gnome 3 font configuration.
Running 12.2 x86_64, Gnome 3 and freetype-infinality-2.4.9-1.1.x86_64 fontconfig-infinality-1-20120615.1.noarch
Thanks,
Robert
obs://home:ketheriel:infinality -- (I've undeleted it now, so it should take a few minutes to rebuild, and we can improve the spec file)...
2012/8/28 Nelson Marques
: > I don't know exactly what 'infinality fonts' term means, so this can > be offtopic.
Infinality is a set of patches for the freetype rendering engine that enables/improves TTF and ClearType rendering with sub-pixel hinting; This set of patches (and configuration files) beat the fuck out of freetype-freeworld and you get font rendering which doesn't embarass Linux when compared to Windows and OSX.
The issue is that most fonts traditionally shipped by openSUSE/SUSE (and other distros) don't really support to the full extent the capabilities of this patch set. If you use Microsoft Fonts or for example the Ubuntu Font Family, you will get amazing results...
That's what it does :)
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