Greetings lovely community, I switched to EndeavourOS Gnome from PopOS and one thing I’ve noticed that is different is the font rendering. I understand EOS doesn’t config the fonts like some other distros might and that’s fine, but when I change my fonts via Gnome Tweaks tool to the same fonts that…

These are the least things i know about as i don’t really bother much with fonts. I basically stick with what ever shows up. I’m also not a big gnome user either. It has to look pretty bad before i worry about messing with it. :grin:

I’m afraid I’m in the same boat as ricklinux. I don’t know much about this and I rarely take action unless font rendering is really bad and that’s not the case right now with my first and recent install of EndeavourOS. One thing I noticed in your screen capture is that you might try ticking “Subpixe…

Try changing your antialiasing to subpixel rather than grayscale. Also running with some other fonts might help although that is a guess. If you have access to these: RGB, hinting slight, DPI 96. I don’t use Gnome but if it helps… :slightly_smiling_face:

This is a must: [image] [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 /et…

Am I into noticing this or what? Can you please expand on this topic? My fonts look fine but I would like to know more. Thanks @keybreak .

Sorry i can’t really expand anything more than what’s already written (and it’s impossible to capture on screenshot), but without it on most monitors should look like “weird / wrong” font rendering, you know…badly aliased glyphs, some weird rgb pixels around some letters…Just wrong. It’s bad upstre…

Yep true. Screenshots don’t really show anything anyway. Defaults sometimes suck. There are plenty of good examples for that but don’t get me started on a whole bunch of topics! :wink:

Has anyone here ever followed this guide for improving font rendering. FYI, it’s a Manjaro wiki, so I’m a little bit hesitant to use a different distros wiki instructions which is meant for their own system than EnOS, unless the process would be the same done in any other Arch-based distro. Would th…

It doesn’t look too far out there - for any Linux system (not just Arch-based). Note that it refers to the Archwiki at the end! As to the specifics of what it is setting, I agree with the settings, but have never used the method as described - it can all be done in my XFCE GUI, and SHOULD be doable …

Scotty_Trees, I just tried out the font tweaks on Manjaro Gnome (latest stable) and it worked noticeably well. I found that fonts before the tweaks were a bit thin and faint in places. After the tweaks they are more uniform and easier to read. I’m no font expert so I can’t offer you a more technical…

How To: Improve Font Rendering in Gnome?

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keybreak July 28, 2021, 6:43am 5

This is a must: