Ugly fonts?

[Mitt Green]

Hi,

I've got somewhat ugly fonts in my Firefox (Iceweasel) and there is the same in Midori, but in Chromium it's fine. Anybody knows, how to fix this? Sometimes it's a bit annoying.

Thanks for all helpers

 

[ryanvade]

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/change-fonts-and-colors-websites-use

 

[Mitt Green]

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/change-fonts-and-colors-websites-use

I wonder why default fonts are so, in many sites custom fonts look even worse and such things appear

 

[GildeNam]

I had the same problem but post from @ryanvade helped me. Thank you

 

[DevynCJohnson]

I wonder why default fonts are so, in many sites custom fonts look even worse and such things appear
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I do not know if you are still having problems, but the box-like characters are missing font characters. I wrote an article a few months back that explains what those are and how to fix them - http://www.linux.org/threads/fixing-missing-characters-and-font-issues.7644/

 

[Mitt Green]

I do not know if you are still having problems, but the box-like characters are missing font characters. I wrote an article a few months back that explains what those are and how to fix them - http://www.linux.org/threads/fixing-missing-characters-and-font-issues.7644/

I don't have, on Wheezy I manually removed 100dpi and 75 dpi in /usr/share/fonts/X11, however upgrading these packages (which actually got the contents of these folders back) brought me a fine font experience.

I was only missing characters if I made websites use my custom fonts.

PS. Wow, you have almost 7k packages installed, so huge and bloaty.

 

[DevynCJohnson]

@Mitt Green , yes, but most of those packages are developer packages and libraries for compiling code and developing code (like Python). I could use Pip to install Python libraries, but if it is in the Ubuntu repos, then I use the repos instead. Plus, some of those packages were installed for various articles. Once the article is written, then I can remove the packages.

Currently, I have about 6000 packages. ~800 being Python-related and ~1000 being developer packages (packages ending with "-dev"). I have many cross-compilers for nearly every architecture and many programming tools and checkers.