Bad font rendering in Firefox

General system Newbie

keybreak April 8, 2021, 8:08pm 15

Certainly, it’s FAQ indeed…I’ll make it

[FAQ] Bad font rendering in Firefox and other programs Newbie

It’s not only Firefox, but any program using fontconfig… Close your program Enable LCD filter sudo ln -fs /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/11-lcdfilter-default.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/ Rebuild font cache fc-cache --force Why it happened? Caused by weird new defaults for fontconfig, maybe it will change in future. Starting from FreeType 2.10.3, Arch Linux enables ClearType subpixel rendering by default [4] . When using ClearType subpixel rendering, you should enable the LCD fil…

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