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Re: Font Woes

Nathaniel W. Turner wrote:

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Hi,

On Monday 17 May 2004 12:52 am, Bruce Park wrote:


I'm currently using the Luxi Sans font (part of ttf-xfree86-nonfree) on my
desktop. For some strange reason, the font looks very ugly.
I suspect you dislike the fact that some parts of the characters seem to be uneven. I suggest you try turning off hinting. This will give the font renderer more freedom to make the characters the correct shape, instead of trying so hard to align them on pixel boundaries.
Hinting is essential when using non-antialiased fonts, but when using antialiasing (which you are), the limitations imposed by hinting do not improve the smoothness of the font rendering, and often make it worse. 

Luxi Sans with hinting:  http://houseofnate.net/tmp/hinting.png
Luxi Sans without hinting:  http://houseofnate.net/tmp/no-hinting.png
Try putting the following stanza in either your /etc/fonts/local.conf or ~/.fonts.conf: 

Can you explain what stanzas are?



<!-- Turns off hinting entirely -->
  <match target="font">
    <edit name="hinting" mode="assign">
      <bool>false</bool>
    </edit>
  </match>
(All that said, Luxi Sans isn't a great-quality font. And it's non-free. You can do better than that! =)
Yes, indeed. These fonts are _non_free. This of course goes against what Debian and free software stands for but sometimes, looks do count. I'm currently using Bitstream Vera Sans for my other fonts but I would really like to get this working just so that I know that I can fix it. 



Cheers,
nate
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