On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote: > Robin Atwood wrote: >> >> Recently freshmeat (http://freshmeat.net/) updated its look and now I find >> the fonts very hard to read. It seems like they are not being rendered with >> anti-aliasing. Linux Journal (http://www.linuxjournal.com/) seems to have >> the same problem. It makes no difference whether I use Firefox or Konqueror, >> the appearance is the same. How can I find out what font is being used and >> maybe substitute it with CSS? > > The solution is to substitute them with another font (I use DejaVu, Sans or > Serif, according to whether the original has serifs or not). Put this in > /etc/fonts/local.conf: (snip) > Also, it helps to enable the "cleartype" USE flab of cairo (for Firefox, > Thunderbird, and other Gtk apps; vastly better fonts here with that USE > flag; it's a nice patch from Arch Linux and fortunately someone added it to > Portage).
Thanks for the great tips. I don't know if it was the cleartype USE flag or the local.conf, but after doing both of these my web fonts look a lot better in Firefox and Seamonkey.
