Odi's astoundingly incomplete notes

If fonts in Firefox look uglier than in Chrome then probably LCD Filtering is not enabled in fontconfig.

In Gentoo enable LCD filtering like so:

eselect fontconfig enable 11-lcdfilter-default.conf
eselect fontconfig list

And make sure the other LCD filtering options are disabled. In my setup I get good fonts with:

Available fontconfig .conf files (* is enabled):
  [1]   10-autohint.conf *
  [2]   10-hinting-full.conf
  [3]   10-hinting-medium.conf
  [4]   10-hinting-none.conf
  [5]   10-hinting-slight.conf
  [6]   10-no-sub-pixel.conf
  [7]   10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf *
  [8]   10-sub-pixel-bgr.conf
  [9]   10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf
  [10]  10-sub-pixel-vbgr.conf
  [11]  10-sub-pixel-vrgb.conf
  [12]  10-unhinted.conf
  [13]  11-lcdfilter-default.conf
  [14]  11-lcdfilter-legacy.conf
  [15]  11-lcdfilter-light.conf
  [16]  20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans.conf
  [17]  20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans-mono.conf
  [18]  20-unhint-small-dejavu-serif.conf
  [19]  20-unhint-small-vera.conf *
  [20]  25-unhint-nonlatin.conf
  [21]  30-metric-aliases.conf *
  [22]  40-nonlatin.conf *
  [23]  45-generic.conf *
  [24]  45-latin.conf *
  [25]  49-sansserif.conf *
  [26]  50-user.conf *
  [27]  51-local.conf *
  [28]  57-dejavu-sans.conf
  [29]  57-dejavu-sans-mono.conf
  [30]  57-dejavu-serif.conf
  [31]  60-generic.conf *
  [32]  60-latin.conf *
  [33]  60-liberation.conf
  [34]  63-source-pro.conf
  [35]  65-fonts-persian.conf *
  [36]  65-khmer.conf
  [37]  65-nonlatin.conf *
  [38]  66-noto-mono.conf *
  [39]  66-noto-sans.conf *
  [40]  66-noto-serif.conf *
  [41]  69-unifont.conf *
  [42]  70-no-bitmaps.conf
  [43]  70-yes-bitmaps.conf
  [44]  75-yes-terminus.conf
  [45]  80-delicious.conf *
  [46]  90-synthetic.conf *

posted on 2022-04-07 14:14 UTC in Code | 0 comments | permalink