Disable hinting with luxi fonts
Bug #339081 reported by
David Allouche
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| xfonts-scalable-nonfree (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
The Luxi fonts look great when unhinted, but they are just ugly when hinted. Maybe there is no hinting data in the font itself and freetype has to do auto-hinting, I do not know.
Since Luxi does not take well to hinting, hinting should be disabled.
In any case, Firefox 3.1 beta 2 from upstream binary tarball appears to ignore the GNOME hinting settings, the only way I found to get good looking Luxi fonts in Firefox was to disable the hinting using fontconfig.
Fontconfig file attached (drop in /etc/fonts/
System details:
Ubuntu 8.10
ttf-xfree86-nonfree 4.2.1-3
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| David Allouche (ddaa) wrote | #1 |
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