How to improve sub-pixel font rendering for Feisty (from Ubuntu Guide)

The fonts look way better out-of-the-box in Ubuntu 7.04 than they used to in previous versions (I wrote about this before - 1, 2), but they can still be improved.

How to improve sub-pixel font rendering for Feisty

This will dramatically improve the appearance of fonts with respect to the default Ubuntu install. The patched libraries are built against Freetype 2.3.x (not currently in feisty) and include David Turner's sub-pixel rendering patches.

In my opinion, the results are really impressive.

Ubuntu & fonts (yet again)

I've just found a nice way of installing Microsoft's TrueType core fonts on Ubuntu without using msttcorefonts package.

You can read about it in post #9 of this thread.

Ubuntu - smooth fonts (continued)

I wrote this yesterday.

And today I've removed Arial font from my system (you can type fonts:/// in Nautilus and delete appropriate files) and, in my opinion, Google and Gmail look now even better than yesterday, because Firefox uses sans-serif instead of Arial.

Ubuntu - smooth fonts

My OS is Ubuntu and the browser of my choice is Firefox. Some WWW developers seem to be unaware of the fact that not everyone in the world runs Windows and specify only fonts like Verdana, Tahoma, Helvetica or Arial in the CSS files. On my machine such webpages (example) were rendered with a font that looks like Times New Roman and looked really awful.

To solve this problem I installed msttcorefonts package. This solved one problem... And created another one. Google and Gmail started to look worse than they did before.

After some searching I found this thread and enabled autohinting in /etc/fonts/local.conf file. Both Google and Gmail started to look good again. And what's more all fonts on the system seem smoother and clearer.

Autohinting disabled
Autohinting enabled