Comments on: How to get gorgeous looking fonts on Ubuntu / Linux Mint

By: Silver Moon

Silver Moon — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 03:39:33 +0000

In reply to Bram. that looks like a very useful list of fonts for ubuntu users.

By: Bram

Bram — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 14:16:20 +0000

I’ve taken the time to compile a list of all fonts in a gallery with preview images for all the Ubuntu packages available atm: https://bneijt.nl/pr/ubuntu-fonts/

By: steviant

steviant — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 22:49:06 +0000

Droid Sans Mono looks better than Inconsolata because Inconsolata has a bold font and Droid Sans for some reason doesn’t. Hinting is turned off entirely for bold fonts (meaning bold fonts are rendered like MacOS). Re-enable hinting for bold fonts and inconsolata will look just as clear and bold fonts will be visibly the same point size.

By: crusher

crusher — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 00:16:47 +0000

works perfectly on ubuntu 16.04.2

thanks for all the effort

By: geraldo

geraldo — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 06:40:17 +0000

This worked very well for Debian Stretch.

By: fagz

fagz — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 22:11:03 +0000

So basically you are ruining the nice, bold anti aliased look that Linux has and trying to Windowsfy the look of the fonts. Looks absolutely terrible.

By: Diogo Moreira

Diogo Moreira — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 19:16:53 +0000

The fonts.conf file posted in this article made my fonts looks uglier than before in Ubuntu Gnome 16.10, I think it’s not necessary anymore. However, thanks for the article!

By: debian-jessie

debian-jessie — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 10:56:40 +0000

Hi Silver Moon,

This works really well on my ubuntu box running xfce, but on my debian jessei box this seem to fail. Following this guide I took the fonts.conf from the github link and followed the instructions by placing it in my $HOME. All the fonts are also isntalled on the system.. Could you give some pointers or write another howto for debian jessei folks?

i also tried the linux mint version but this did not work unfortunally.

thanks

By: Kerber Q

Kerber Q — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 15:09:00 +0000

Both Droid and Noto are pretty. But Droid doesn’t display nicely some characters in my language (czech), but Noto does, so I try to force this one instead. Although I get some errors in a console about multiple values in fonts.conf. (Slackware 14.1 64bit)

By: srikkbhat

srikkbhat — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 20:35:00 +0000

Does this work on Fedora 21?

By: Simon Peres

Simon Peres — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 15:52:00 +0000

Wow this is great. Works on my samsung and vaio laptops. anw, I use kubuntu for both. updated version of xml .fonts.conf will be truly appreciated

By: What for?

What for? — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 11:41:00 +0000

I suggest Fantasque Sans Mono for monospace. http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/fantasque-sans-mono

By: jarun

jarun — Sat, 27 Sep 2014 07:59:00 +0000

Infinality is another way to get the best font rendering on Ubuntu. It also allows to tweak many more options:
http://tuxdiary.com/2014/09/27/font-rendering-ubuntu-infinality/

By: A. Nonymous

A. Nonymous — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 02:50:00 +0000

In reply to Pr3fix. I'm not really sure, but I "often" see white boxes in place of characters that don't exist on a given font, like Asian characters, if I don't have the font installed. Perhaps it's something like that that is happening, somehow.

By: A. Nonymous

A. Nonymous — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 02:48:00 +0000

*”… LCD monitor at 96 dpi (not sure if that was the actual dpi of the monitor) …”*

DPI “calculator”:

https://www.sven.de/dpi/

Perhaps one may also find that it helps to set the correct DPI via xrandr or xorg.conf.

It used to be correctly detected in earlier xorg versions, but it was decided that it should be bug-compatible with Windows (at least pre-7/8), and have a hard-coded default setting of 96dpi, rather than via configuration, regardless of anything.

Depending on your resolution, using the correct DPI may make things have wrong sizes though (or somewhat blurred fonts if the actual DPI is smaller, I guess), that’s because some of the UIs are hard-coded to have pixel-based sizes rather than actual measurements size. Hopefully this will change soon, it seems almost unavoidable with the trend of responsive web design.

By: Leonardo Rossi

Leonardo Rossi — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 21:16:00 +0000

In reply to Matt Hoover. Hi Matt, I have the same issue with exclamation marks (mine are looking like a J actually). Have you managed to solve this?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 26 May 2014 04:25:00 +0000

Thanks a lot, but I still have difficulties in tweaking font for Chromium browser on Ubuntu 14.04. The browser could not display well, however, Firefox is fine.

By: Pr3fix

Pr3fix — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 22:51:00 +0000

I did all these tweaks on ElementaryOS and now my login screen (Pantheon Greeter) has white boxes where characters should be… After login the fonts appear fine, however. Anyone know how I can fix this?

By: Ghaith B

Ghaith B — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 18:35:00 +0000

Thanks for this post! great fonts but I have a problem with chromium; if Im using Open Sans or Noto Sans; the URL bar’s text becomes jumpy; as if It doesnt’ fit, any similar behavior?

By: Alexey Morozov

Alexey Morozov — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 05:16:00 +0000

I wonder how you did manage to get subpixel font rendering in Plasma applets and panels, In most places (e.g in the panel clocks and in the K-menu I have grayscale rendering despite the system settings and font rendering in applications.