LinuxQuestions.org - XFT fonts display fuzzy and dark

Hi,
I have a new machine that I'm setting up. I copied the .Xdefaults from my old machine but the fonts are not as crisp as they are on the original machine. The fonts appear much smaller, and the color is grey, even though I set the foreground color to white. Anyone know which configurations I'm overlooking? This problem is across all applications (gnome-terminal, urxvt, gvim, etc). I added two screen shots, showing the good and bad views. Thanks.

My .Xdefaults:

Code:

! foreground/background

URxvt*background: #000000

URxvt*foreground: #FFFFFF

! black

URxvt.color0  : #000000

URxvt.color8  : #555555

! red

URxvt.color1  : #AA0000

!URxvt.color9  : #FF5555

URxvt.color9  : #F62817

! green

!URxvt.color2  : #00AA00

URxvt.color2  : #4AA02C

URxvt.color10  : #6CC417

!URxvt.color10 : #55FF55

! yellow

!URxvt.color3  : #AA5500

URxvt.color3  : #FDD017

URxvt.color11 : #FFFF55

! blue

!URxvt.color4  : #0000AA

URxvt.color4  : #6698FF

!URxvt.color12 : #5555FF

URxvt.color12 : #82CAFF

! magenta

URxvt.color5  : #AA00AA

!URxvt.color13 : #FF55FF

URxvt.color13 : #C6AEC7

! cyan

URxvt.color6  : #00AAAA

URxvt.color14 : #55FFFF

! white

URxvt.color7  : #AAAAAA

URxvt.color15 : #FFFFFF



URxvt*font: xft:Monospace:pixelsize=10

URxvt*boldFont: xft:Monospace:bold:pixelsize=10

URxvt*letterSpace: -1

URxvt*scrollBar:false