New font configuration. Are they better?

[bra|10n]

I have a low res of 1366x768 here and found the 'best' settings for me on the acer are,

force_autohint=true
dpi=96
font_weight="10 20 40 20 10", not listed but an option nevertheless...

[SteveRiley]

Mind posting a screenshot?

[bra|10n]

No problem, but compression cruels the shot. Best to view the full size link...



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[SteveRiley]

Hey, nice... I'll give it a try again on my X1, using your settings.

[verndog]

Lets start fresh...

Extract freetype-infinality-2.4.9-20120403_02-x86_64.tar.bz2 into an empty folder.

Look for the following files,



So move infinality-settings.sh and freetype-infinality.sh into /etc/profile_d/.

Open freetype-infinality.sh and delete its contents and paste the following into the file;

PRELOAD=1; if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/fonts ]; then . /etc/sysconfig/fonts; fi; A1=`arch`; A2=x86_64; if [ "${A1:0:1}" = "${A2:0:1}" -a ! "$PRELOAD" = "0" ]; then ADDED=`/bin/echo $LD_PRELOAD | grep "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6" | wc -l`; if [ "$ADDED" = "0" ]; then export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6:$LD_PRELOAD ; fi; fi

Save and close.

Now copy fontconfig-infinality-1-20111223_2.tar.bz2 to /etc/fonts and extract the files. Now delete fontconfig-infinality-1-20111223_2.tar.bz2. Open /etc/fonts/infinality/infinality.conf in kate and set your dpi (line 34). Save and close.

Run the following in a terminal,

. /etc/profile.d/infinality-settings.sh

Logout and back in.

A couple of things. Change "/etc/profile_d/" to "/etc/profile.d/".

Also What your deleting and then adding in file "freetype-infinality.sh" are identical.

PRELOAD=1; if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/fonts ]; then . /etc/sysconfig/fonts; fi; A1=`arch`; A2=x86_64; if [ "${A1:0:1}" = "${A2:0:1}" -a ! "$PRELOAD" = "0" ]; then ADDED=`/bin/echo $LD_PRELOAD | grep "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6" | wc -l`; if [ "$ADDED" = "0" ]; then export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6:$LD_PRELOAD ; fi; fi

Edit: After installing and rebooting, it appears to make a big difference. I need to adjust the fonts size, but the clarity is noticeable. I have used Infinality fonts before in my Fedora installs. First time using Kubuntu. thanks.

[sumski]

I have finally found a almost perfect setup:
Infinality's fontconfig - 'Linux' style
Infinality's freetype style - Ubuntu, but changed INFINALITY_FT_FILTER_PARAMS to 15 20 32 20 15 (Smooth)
Explicit Xft settings:

Xft.antialias:  1
Xft.hinting:    1
Xft.hintstyle:  hintslight
Xft.rgba:       rgb

Font - Droid Sans (fetched from Fedora, they seem to update regularly from git)

Results:
Rendering in Rekonq:
http://i.imgur.com/zOWmA.png
Firefox:
http://i.imgur.com/RbFov.png
Kate:
http://i.imgur.com/OUm9V.png
Konqueror:
http://i.imgur.com/G35PT.png

EDIT:
Doesn't seem it's worth opening a new thread - Oxygen 'in-progress' (OxygenSans) version looks really terrible, also i'm not thtat crazy about 0.2. I liked it the most at the beginning of the road

[starbuck]

Hi,

for this to work on Kubuntu Quantal do I need install any other packages like this:
https://launchpad.net/~no1wantdthisname/+archive/ppa

Or simply follow the instructions?

The reason is I am looking into making infinality patched Kubuntu version default for Netrunner once I found a satisfactory working default setting, thanks,.