Ugly fonts in 12.10 even with antialiasing turned on

Question

I'm feeling like there's something wrong with font rendering because it looked a lot nicer last time I had Ubuntu running on the same PC (or even from a Live CD).

gnome-tweak-tool nautilus

Is it something wrong with my configuration?

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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Make sure you have the ubuntu-desktop package installed. It contains, among other things, the ubuntu-settings package, which includes the default font settings.

If you have it installed and the fonts still look ugly, you can try resetting the configurations of Unity:

How do I reset GNOME to the defaults?

Here's the default font settings for 12.10:

Tweak tool - Fonts

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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answered Sep 30 '12 at 06:47

jokerdino

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 01 '12 at 05:22

I assume you are saying ugly to the thin look of the fonts. Though You have anti-aliasing turned on, the hinting is important there. With full hinting, you will get much thinner fonts which do not look great on Unity (It looks good in KDE though).

You should change the hinting to Slight, instead of full. It will give you smoother fonts which is enabled by default in Ubuntu.

Ugly fonts in 12.10 even with antialiasing turned on

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