Playing with Fontconfig (2020)

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Classic thorough post venam! Glad you're sharing them!

I don't have the spare cycles to substantively engage. These posts would make for really good discussion seeds in the linux infrastructure meetup I run. Comprehensive, but still approachable answers to what it takes to solve X well, here font rendering.

Great article that captures and organizes a lot of information that's not so easy to find with Google. I've spent many hours tweaking the Freetype antialiasing settings and interpreter version to get font rendering "just right" on Linux. Now that I know about this article, I might give it another go.

BTW, I just noticed that the Firefox UI isn't picking up my RGB subpixel settings. Does anybody know a fix for that?

Firefox uses the fontconfig settings only and ignores desktop environment settings. So you need to change the rgba setting in your .fonts.conf.

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