Ubuntu
fontconfig package

  1. Bug #210921
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 210921

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Pascal de Bruijn (pmjdebruijn) wrote :

This is still a problem with Ubuntu Karmic!

Ubuntu Karmic's font rendering is completely unbearable out of the box... Another issues that has popped up with Karmic is that Firefox 3.5 seems to ignore font rendering settings per user, and always uses system default. So even when I set hinting to full in my user account. Firefox still uses the crappy slight hinting...

Just remove:
/etc/fonts.conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf -> ../conf.avail/10-hinting-slight.conf

And link the following instead:
/etc/fonts.conf.d/10-hinting-full.conf -> ../conf.avail/10-hinting-full.conf

And the problem is completely resolved. Such a trivial fix. I hope this will make it into Karmic Final.