New monitor... fonts ugly as hell now

AriciU · 08-02-2007, 08:28 AM

I just changed my 19" LCD for a 22" LCD.

Had no problems with fonts looking ugly before (installed the windows fonts and fixed the uglyness). Now they are ugly as hell and i don't know why changing a monitor could've caused this.

Any suggestions?

[img=http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/5209/fontssk2.th.jpg]

jong357 · 08-02-2007, 09:02 AM

I see no difference between the picture and your actuall post here on LQ...

I guess that means my fonts are ugly as well. Try changing your dpi or something. I've been a fan of the trutype patches from David Turner, but they are broken cairo side last I checked... That makes a huge diff when using an LCD monitor.

hollywoodb · 08-02-2007, 12:40 PM

The screenshot looks fine, but of course it would since a screenshot isn't an actual picture of your monitors output :P

I don't know if you're using Gnome, KDE, or XFce, but if you're using one of those try playing around with the antialiasing settings for fonts.

Daedra · 08-03-2007, 12:59 AM

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ight=font+geek
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...eautiful+fonts

Check out these posts, they should help you

merer · 08-03-2007, 02:25 AM

I think you may have an interesting problem.
Have you enabled subpixel hinting? If so, i have an idea why your fonts could look so bad now, why we don't see anything terribly wrong with them and why they looked better on the other monitor. Try changing pixel order from the default RGB to different values. Maybe that will fix your problem.
After a closer look, the subpixel hinting seems to be off. If you want to enable it, follow the posts linked by Daedra.

karpi · 08-03-2007, 02:50 AM

Hi,

have you adjusted your X-Settings to the new default Screen-resolution.

HTH

Daedra · 08-03-2007, 03:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by karpi

Hi,

have you adjusted your X-Settings to the new default Screen-resolution.

HTH

Yeah, that is very important