I am using endeavouros with KDE Plasma DE. The fonts looks bad in applications like firefox and other browsers. Fonts in firefox are okay but the fonts in chromium based browsers look bad and jagged. I had followed many instructions from other forums and websites like installing microsoft fonts from…

Bad fonts and font rendering

keybreak January 28, 2024, 12:01pm 5

[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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