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Originally Posted by chill View Post
How do you guys get your www fonts to render so smoothly? I installed the MS fonts pack, use anti-aliasing and sub pixel hinting and they still look horrible on a bunch of sites.

EDIT: Sorry I meant to say URW not MS
Check this thread:
http://forums.pcbsd.org/viewtopic.php?t=12137

Especially this post:
http://forums.pcbsd.org/viewtopic.php?p=74641#p74641

To be honest, this one is my full ~/.fonts.conf I currently use:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">

<fontconfig>

  <!-- antialias all fonts -->
  <match target="font">
    <edit name="antialias" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
    <edit name="hinting"   mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
    <edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign"><int>0</int></edit>
    <edit name="dpi"       mode="assign"><double>75</double></edit>
    </match>
  
  <!-- replace these with a better looking font (MONO) -->
  <match target="pattern">
    <test name="family"    qual="any"><string>courier</string></test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign"><string>Courier 10 Pitch</string></edit>
    </match>

  <!-- replace these with a better looking font (SANS) -->
  <match target="pattern">
    <test name="family"    qual="any"><string>helvetica</string></test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign"><string>trebuchet ms</string></edit>
    </match>
  
  <match target="pattern">
    <test name="family"    qual="any"><string>lucida grande</string></test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign"><string>trebuchet ms</string></edit>
    </match>
  
  <match target="pattern">
    <test name="family"    qual="any"><string>lucida</string></test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign"><string>trebuchet ms</string></edit>
    </match>
  
  <match target="pattern">
    <test name="family"    qual="any"><string>arial</string></test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign"><string>trebuchet ms</string></edit>
    </match>
  
  <match target="pattern">
    <test name="family"    qual="any"><string>luxi sans</string></test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign"><string>trebuchet ms</string></edit>
    </match>
  
  <match target="pattern">
    <test name="family"    qual="any"><string>sans</string></test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign"><string>trebuchet ms</string></edit>
    </match>
  
  <match target="pattern">
    <test name="family"    qual="any"><string>tahoma</string></test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign"><string>trebuchet ms</string></edit>
    </match>
  
  <match target="pattern">
    <test name="family"    qual="any"><string>verdana</string></test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign"><string>trebuchet ms</string></edit>
    </match>
  
  <match target="pattern">
    <test name="family"    qual="any"><string>helvetica</string></test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign"><string>trebuchet ms</string></edit>
    </match>
  
  <!-- replace these with a better-looking font (SERIF) -->
  <match target="pattern">
    <test name="family"    qual="any"><string>luxi serif</string></test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign"><string>serif</string></edit>
    </match>

  <match target="pattern">
    <test name="family"    qual="any"><string>times new roman</string></test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign"><string>serif</string></edit>
    </match>

  <match target="pattern">
    <test name="family"    qual="any"><string>times</string></test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign"><string>serif</string></edit>
    </match>

</fontconfig>
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