Re: Non-antialiased fonts ugly

troemer@swipnet.se adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie and donned asbestos

underwear to post:

> I am currently using font antialiasing, and it looks pretty nice.
>
> Now I would like to try without antialiasing, or maybe exclude small

> fonts from antialiasing. But if I do that, the fonts look really
ugly.
>
> If I look a font on a Windoze machine, let's say Tahoma, it "fits to

> the pixel" and is very sharp an good to read. On Linux, the same
font
> doesn't seem to fit to the pixels, and therefore looks irregular and

> ugly.
>
> I tried different fonts, font sizes, ... always the same.
>
> Same resolution, same screen (TFT).
>
> Using SuSE 9.2, KDE 3.3.0 (same with GNOME)
>
> Any chance to have non-antialiased fonts look the same as on
Windows?
>
> Torsten

Have you got the sub-pixel hinting switched on or off?

And have you tried the different levels?

Fonts have been a major issue for years with linux and it is only
relatively recently that we have anti-alising.


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