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Disable font hinting by default  
Written by zarlino the 28 Feb 08 at 13:55. Category: Look and Feel. Related to: Nothing/Others. New
If you're not a graphic artist, you probably don't know what this means. To be short: the practical effect is that you fonts look smoother, like the Mac OS X fonts.

Also, most fonts look very bad with hinting enabled, virtually only Vera/DejaVu has acceptable results, while most other fonts are not usable.

This is very easy to implement: it is just a true/false value in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
You can also set it per user in your ~/.fonts.conf by pasting this snippet:


false


(Affects only newly started applications)

Artists and eye candy people, make your voice heard!

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