[hardy] Fonts are rendered slightly fuzzy and are too thin

[Peter de Kraker]

Binary package hint: fontconfig

Somehow the font rendering in Hardy makes it hard to read them and therefore use my PC. Which is very frustrating.

The most noticeable change from 7.10 => 8.04 is that the font thickness has been decreased too much. However, changing the default font-size to 11, doesn't give the desired look that 7.10 had. The fonts just stay too thin.
Something that probably goes hand in hand with the thin fonts, is the fact that they are also partly blurred. This is very noticeable in the gnome-terminal.

I have tried every option in the font menu, all to no avail.

See the screenshot for more details. Especially notice the font-rendering in the terminal and the gnome-panel menu. It hurts the eyes.

[Ralph Corderoy (ralph-inputplus)]

See also bug #223791 and my attachment to it in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fontconfig/+bug/223791/comments/3

[Ralph Corderoy (ralph-inputplus)]

I too am seeing this problem on upgrading from 7.10 to 8.04.

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)]

This bug report is no longer relevant for newer Ubuntu releases (these days the FreeType renderer has changed a lot).