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Does the uppercase letter D of the Georgia font look ugly on your screen? In certain font sizes only maybe? Then anti-aliasing is to blame. Here are some letters in the Georgia typeface: DDDD
On Linux you can disable anti-aliasing for this font, by adding a
Alternatively replace Georgia with Times New Roman completely:
Next I'm going to tackle the problem of the cut off left slant of the upper case W.
On Linux you can disable anti-aliasing for this font, by adding a
fontconfig script:
<match target="font">
<test name="family" qual="any">
<string>Georgia</string>
</test>
<edit name="antialias" mode="assign">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
After that the font is no longer anti-aliased but the D doesn't look ugly:Alternatively replace Georgia with Times New Roman completely:
<match target="pattern">
<test name="family" qual="any" >
<string>Georgia</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="assign">
<string>Times New Roman</string>
</edit>
</match>
which renders like so: Next I'm going to tackle the problem of the cut off left slant of the upper case W.
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