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    Bad quality aliased fonts when viewing this forum

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by neoideo, Oct 16, 2014.

  1. neoideo

    neoideo Notebook Consultant

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    Hi all,

    Straight to the point. I am under Linux (Arch distro), and for some reason the fonts do not render correctly when I come to this site. From what I know i should habe the standard fonts installed on my system. Has anyone had this problem before? any ideas?

    Here is a picture, see the fonts, they dont look as good as they should. I have this problem just on a small number of sites.

    fonts.png
     
    neoideo, Oct 16, 2014
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  2. katalin_2003

    katalin_2003 NBR Spectre Super Moderator

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    Hello Neoideo.
    What browser are you using?
     
    katalin_2003, Oct 16, 2014
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  3. Quix Omega

    Quix Omega Notebook Evangelist

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    The font-family setting is:

    HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;

    Make sure you have at least one of the fonts before the generic "sans-serif" request, which is generally what causes that hideous aliasing in Linux.
     
    Quix Omega, Oct 16, 2014
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  4. neoideo

    neoideo Notebook Consultant

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    Useful information, are these comercial fonts?

    I am using Firefox, I will try installing chromium and see what I get.

    The problem has been fixed. Googling "firefox fonts arch" led me to the post with the solution.
    https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1260113

    thanks for the help, now the forum looks good!
     
    neoideo, Oct 17, 2014
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    What part of that thread brought you to the solution? Installing a font package or adjusting the config, or both?
     
    ALLurGroceries, Oct 17, 2014
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  6. neoideo

    neoideo Notebook Consultant

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    Actually just adjusting the config of post #14 from the link, to /etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf fixed the problem.
    I guess having the default fonts installed from arch linux is enough.
     
    neoideo, Oct 17, 2014
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