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--- tips:how-to-fix-blurry-font-rendering-in-ubuntu [18.08.2018 22:21]
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 Starting the file name with 99 will force the content to be sourced last when the configuration is read and as a result any settings in the file will override those set elsewhere. The //lcdfilter// setting seems to have the most effect and setting //rgba// to //none// will make the antialiasing to be grayscale instead of seamingly random colors. The documentation for this file is available [[http://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html|here]].
-===== Additional changes for new FreeType version =====
+===== Additional changes for more recent FreeType versions =====
 Starting from FreeType version 2.7, the hinting style has changed (see [[https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/subpixel-hinting.html|more detailed documentation]]. However, this results in more blur than with the previously used (v35 interpreter) solution causing again fonts to be less sharp. The older interpreter is still available and can be enabled with the following addition in, for example, /etc/environment or any other file where environment properties can be set before the X server is started:

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