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Re: Ugly Font at Certain Size

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On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 7:01 AM, Max Harmathy <max.harmathy@web.de> wrote:

> Am 20.07.2018 um 22:20 schrieb Kent West:
> > I'm running Sid, and after some recent updates (which introduced several
> > problems, most of which I've now ironed out), I've noticed that some of
> > my emails (read in Chromium via Google Mail) and a few web pages have
> > ugly, hard-to-read text. I've since discovered that I can Ctrl-Plus or
> > Ctrl-Minus to bump the text/page zoom one notch one way or the other and
> > the font clears up.
> >
> > How do I find a fix?
> >
> > I've used Chromium's right-click/Inspect feature to see fonts mentioned
> > (Arial & Tahoma & Lucinda Grande & Sans Serif(?) come to mind), which I
> > didn't see on my system using either GWaterfall or Font Manager, so I
> > installed a few font packages, which doesn't seem to have helped, but
> > which did provide me with fonts with at least similar names in some
> > cases. I suspect I'm bouncing in the general area of the problem's
> > solution, but not quite there.
> >
> > It's a nuisance, but not a huge deal, as the font is somewhat readable,
> > and the zoom makes it more so, but it would be nice to get fixed.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
>
> Try to turn off hinting (set to "none").
>
>
> The place, where you can find the setting depends on the desktop.
> If you use GNOME, it's in gnome-tweaks.
> On Plasma it's in systemsettings.
> In Mate it's in  mate-control-center
> For LXDE it's lxappearance
>
>
Cinnamon, System Settings (Control Panel), Fonts

Changed hinting from "Slight" to "None". Had to wait until today to see a
message come in with the problem. Now the text is completely gone. It's not
just hidden, it's gone (can't click inside the text area and select (or
Ctrl-A) anything).

Weird.

It's not a big deal currently, as the only messages it seems to be
affecting are message threads coming from Facebook (the profile pix are
still at the edge of each comment in the email message, but no text), which
I can read on Facebook. But it definitely is odd (and could create problems
later on more legitimate messages). But I'm not terribly worried about it
at the moment. Still, if anyone has any other suggestions, I'm open.

Oh, btw, setting the hinting back to "Slight" does not return things to the
way they were; the text is still missing from those messages. Maybe I have
to restart Chromium (although I don't believe I restarted it since I
changed the hinting to None)?


> Max
>
>


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Ugly Font at Certain Size Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2018-07-20 22:30 +0200
  Re: Ugly Font at Certain Size Max Harmathy <max.harmathy@web.de> - 2018-07-24 14:10 +0200
    Re: Ugly Font at Certain Size Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2018-07-25 22:00 +0200

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