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stepharo

How to get better fonts?

Hi

with my new glasses (yes age) I know see all the details of characters.
I tried to set some freeType fonts using settings
and I enforce FreeType but I do not succeed to get nice fonts.
Am'I doing something wrong?

Stef

Peter Uhnak

Re: How to get better fonts?

I think you need to uncheck (disable) FreeType and then check (enable) it again for it to really load the fonts.

And only then more fonts are available. (at least on linux)

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 5:37 PM, stepharo <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi

with my new glasses (yes age) I know see all the details of characters. I tried to set some freeType fonts using settings
and I enforce FreeType but I do not succeed to get nice fonts.
Am'I doing something wrong?

Stef

Tudor Girba-2

Re: How to get better fonts?

In reply to this post by stepharo

Do you by any chance have a retina MacBook? If yes, the fuzziness of fonts is due to that.

Doru

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 5:37 PM, stepharo <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi

with my new glasses (yes age) I know see all the details of characters. I tried to set some freeType fonts using settings
and I enforce FreeType but I do not succeed to get nice fonts.
Am'I doing something wrong?

Stef

www.tudorgirba.com

"Every thing has its own flow"

stepharo

Re: How to get better fonts?

Le 27/7/15 21:03, Tudor Girba a écrit :

Do you by any chance have a retina MacBook? If yes, the fuzziness of fonts is due to that.

Yes but I thought that freetype would looks really better because now it is quite ugly.

Doru

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 5:37 PM, stepharo <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi

with my new glasses (yes age) I know see all the details of characters. I tried to set some freeType fonts using settings
and I enforce FreeType but I do not succeed to get nice fonts.
Am'I doing something wrong?

Stef

--

www.tudorgirba.com

"Every thing has its own flow"

stepharo

Re: How to get better fonts?

In reply to this post by Peter Uhnak

Le 27/7/15 17:54, Peter Uhnák a écrit :

I think you need to uncheck (disable) FreeType and then check (enable) it again for it to really load the fonts.
And only then more fonts are available. (at least on linux)

Yes I did it.

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 5:37 PM, stepharo <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi

with my new glasses (yes age) I know see all the details of characters. I tried to set some freeType fonts using settings
and I enforce FreeType but I do not succeed to get nice fonts.
Am'I doing something wrong?

Stef

kilon.alios

Re: How to get better fonts?

In reply to this post by Tudor Girba-2

is this a macbook only issue because I have iMac 27'' late 2013 which its retina is even higher resolution and I have no such issue.

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 10:04 PM Tudor Girba <[hidden email]> wrote:

Do you by any chance have a retina MacBook? If yes, the fuzziness of fonts is due to that.

Doru

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 5:37 PM, stepharo <[hidden email]> wrote:
Hi

with my new glasses (yes age) I know see all the details of characters. I tried to set some freeType fonts using settings
and I enforce FreeType but I do not succeed to get nice fonts.
Am'I doing something wrong?

Stef

--
www.tudorgirba.com

"Every thing has its own flow"

Sven Van Caekenberghe-2

Re: How to get better fonts?

> On 28 Jul 2015, at 16:35, Dimitris Chloupis <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> is this a macbook only issue because I have iMac 27'' late 2013 which its retina is even higher resolution and I have no such issue.

That is not Retina, only the 5K 27-inch iMac is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retina_Display

Retina more or less means that you have double the actual real resolution than you are actually using.

> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 10:04 PM Tudor Girba <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Do you by any chance have a retina MacBook? If yes, the fuzziness of fonts is due to that.
>
> Doru
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 5:37 PM, stepharo <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> with my new glasses (yes age) I know see all the details of characters. I tried to set some freeType fonts using settings
> and I enforce FreeType but I do not succeed to get nice fonts.
> Am'I doing something wrong?
>
> Stef
>
>
>
>
> --
> www.tudorgirba.com
>
> "Every thing has its own flow"

kilon.alios

Re: How to get better fonts?

ah ok I stand corrected . 5K will be my next iMac :)

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 5:48 PM Sven Van Caekenberghe <[hidden email]> wrote:

> On 28 Jul 2015, at 16:35, Dimitris Chloupis <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> is this a macbook only issue because I have iMac 27'' late 2013 which its retina is even higher resolution and I have no such issue.

That is not Retina, only the 5K 27-inch iMac is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retina_Display

Retina more or less means that you have double the actual real resolution than you are actually using.

> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 10:04 PM Tudor Girba <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Do you by any chance have a retina MacBook? If yes, the fuzziness of fonts is due to that.
>
> Doru
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 5:37 PM, stepharo <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> with my new glasses (yes age) I know see all the details of characters. I tried to set some freeType fonts using settings
> and I enforce FreeType but I do not succeed to get nice fonts.
> Am'I doing something wrong?
>
> Stef
>
>
>
>
> --
> www.tudorgirba.com
>
> "Every thing has its own flow"

Igor Stasenko

Re: How to get better fonts?

In reply to this post by stepharo

On 27 July 2015 at 17:37, stepharo <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi

with my new glasses (yes age) I know see all the details of characters. I tried to set some freeType fonts using settings
and I enforce FreeType but I do not succeed to get nice fonts.
Am'I doing something wrong?

i understand, in general, how Freetype package doing the magic, but

certainly missing deep level knowledge that would allow me to tell how it can be improved.

(that is separate from issue of forcing the image to use proper font renderer - a freetype one)

Stef

Best regards,
Igor Stasenko.