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Discuss about font rendering, discuss patches and fonts.
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Discuss about font rendering, discuss patches and fonts.
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Vanilla.
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>>44086094
Too bold IMHO.
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>linux has shit font rendering
shocking news.
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>>44086094
looks like Ubuntu’s font rendering
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>>44086744
Not as shit as Windows though.
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>>44086744
>>linux has shit font rendering

Not anymore.
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>>inb4 apple masterrace
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>>44086863
Windows font rendering is superior.

What's the deal with the blurriness on linux, it makes it look like a fisher price OS with headache inducing shit smeared in lines across a page.

... and that is if Xorg starts without any hassle.
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>>44086892
You have to be kidding me. Windows font rendering is complete shit.

I can tell when a screenshot is from Windows solely from that distinctive shitty font rendering.
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>>44086744
>>linux has shit font rendering

Oh really?
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>>44086932
>liking blurry shitfont

looks like someone is unemployed.
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here's mine. Enjoy.
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>>44086984
it's the xkcd font by thze way.
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>>44086094

What WM is that?
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>>44086984
Should've used wingdings.
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>>44087037
gentoo
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>>44086863
>>44086882
>>44086932
>this is what freetards actually believe
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meh
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>>44087054
I personally prefer this
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WHAT ABOUT MINECRAFT?
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>>44087082
>>this is what freetards actually believe

Your problem is that you still think this is 1995 and we Linux people still need to copy fonts from MSWindows and that the Font Deuglification FAQ is still current.
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>>44087054
this should do it, too.
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Windows font
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~/.gtkrc-2.0
gtk-xft-antialias=1
gtk-xft-hinting=1
gtk-xft-hintstyle="hintfull"
gtk-xft-rgba="none"
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>>44087082
I'm primarily a Windows users and have been since I started using computers, but sometimes I do my browsing/reading in an Ubuntu VM just because the font rendering is so much more crisp than it is in Windows.
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Why are winfags even in this thread? Isn't this a thread for nice font rendering?
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>>44085502
My eyes literally hurt looking at this. It's way too blurry, I feel like I am wearing glasses with the wrong prescription.
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>>44087421
Clearly you don't belong then.
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I'm using the ubuntu font for the sans serif font on firefox. any recommendations ?
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>>44087469
epin
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No patches here
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>>44085502
hmmm okay
>>44086094
good
>>44086824
hmmm ok
>>44086959
hmmm ok (why did you use jpg?)
>>44087111
no
>>44087346
no
>>44087421
good
>>44087530
almost there


I'm a winfag with subhuman font-rendering btw
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Hell I can't tell the difference between any of these
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>>44087609
good
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>>44087570
>hmmm ok (why did you use jpg?)

Because I did a screenshot the previous time I needed to do a jpeg (natural scene) and I forgot I had it set that way
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windooze mactype master race
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>>44087720
>windows
wrong thread, buddy
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>>44087954
nobody is going to shit on mine?
okay then
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Freetype2, ttf-autohint, and cairo are fucking godsends.

MacType makes the font rendering on Windows better. I just wish it would get an update. Hell, I can't even find source for it anymore, the Mercurial repo is dead.
Anyone know where it could be found?
Could use newer versions of the aforementioned libraries. Also, font replacement with OpenType.

But yes, GNU/Linux could definitely do better than Windows in the Desktop Publishing sector. Maybe not Mac OS X tier, but close.
>freetype
>ghostscript
>cups
Great stuff.

Can we also discuss typography as it relates to technology here?
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>>44087491
Helvetica Neue
Lato
Adobe Clean

And for serif, I replace Times Roman with Linotype's Times Ten. It is a Times variant that is better for body copy (e.g. small sizes, like 16pt and below).
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meh
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Pretty vanilla.
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How is this?
My display res is only 1680x1050.
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