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Idea
#5: Disable font hinting by default
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Written by zarlino the 28 Feb 08 at 13:55.
Category: Look and Feel.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
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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zarlino wrote on the 28 Feb 08 at 14:29
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The XML snippet has been removed. Here it is using brackets:
[match target="font"]
[edit mode="assign" name="hinting"]
[bool]false[/bool]
[/edit]
[/match]
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xhaker wrote on the 28 Feb 08 at 14:35
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What about slight font hinting?
It seems to produce results more similar to MacOS X.
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doughy wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 01:12
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I just tried turning off font hinting and it made the text look horrible.
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rumli wrote on the 23 Mar 08 at 00:39
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Actually, I turned off hinting just now, and my fonts become beautiful! Look at the difference between Norasi (16 pt) and Nimbus Roman (16pt) in Firefox with and without hinting. It makes a world of difference. With hinting, the fonts looked very bad. The author of this idea is right: only Vera and DejaVu are one of very few to look good with hinting.
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