Ubuntu
fontconfig package

Bold font is too much "bold"

Bug #349869 reported by Ricardo Pérez López on 2009-03-27

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	fontconfig (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: fontconfig

After upgraded from Intrepid to Jaunty, I realized that the bold fonts are too much intense and fat. After now, I have been using a /etc/fonts/local.conf file to have the bold fonts lighter:

$ cat /etc/fonts/local.conf
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">

<fontconfig>

<match target="font">
<test name="weight" compare="more"><const>medium</const></test>
<edit mode="assign" name="autohint"><bool>false</bool></edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>

The above fix has been working since Dapper until now. In Jaunty, it doesn't work, so the bold fonts are very disturbing.

I attach an screenshot to illustrate how bold fonts are too much intense.

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Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo) wrote on 2009-03-27:

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Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo) wrote on 2009-03-28:

I can fix the problem doing the following:

$ cd /etc/fonts/conf.d
$ sudo ln -s ../conf.avail/10-autohint.conf .
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config
   1. How should fonts be tuned for the screen? » Autohinter
   2. Enable subpixel rendering of text? » Always
   3. Enable default «bitmapped» fonts? » No

And creating a file called /etc/fonts/local.conf with the following content:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">

<fontconfig>
  
  <match target="font">
    <test name="weight" compare="more"><const>medium</const></test>
    <edit mode="assign" name="autohint"><bool>false</bool></edit>
  </match>
</fontconfig>