Another take on font rendering

Found on the Tombuntu bloghttp://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/10/15/tweak-your-font-rendering-for-better-appearance/

Tom describes ways of getting hinting to work by using the fonts.conf files – I wonder how this differs from my previous post about readability where I ran:

sudo ln -sf /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-autohint.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/

Found from another blog (http://maketecheasier.com/how-to-achieve-nice-font-rendering-in-ubuntu-hardy/2008/09/19)

Will test when I get bored…

Improve readability in Ubuntu 8.10

I was trying to read a page and saw that the font rendering was terrible and hard to read. Found a partial solution here “How to Achieve Nice Font Rendering in Ubuntu Hardy“

It didn’t make the world a perfect place, but it certainly improved the readability as seen in the example below. In the first pic some letters are practically printed on each other, while in the second the spacing between characters has been notably improved.

Improve text rendering, hinting of fonts