177315 - FreeFont is displayed very pale in Mozilla with xft

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)

Description

[André Dahlqvist]

There are a package of completely free high-quality fonts called FreeFonts
(available from http://www.nongnu.org/freefont/) that I have tried with a
xft-enabled Mozilla. Unfortunately, the result is poor if I choose FreeSerif as
my serif-font in Mozilla. The screenshot below will show that. I will also
include a screenshot from Konqueror using the same font.

Comment 1

[André Dahlqvist]

Attachment: Screenshot showing how Slashdot looks with FreeSerif as font in Mozilla-xft.

Comment 2

[André Dahlqvist]

Attachment: Screenshot of Slashdot with FreeSerif in Konqueror

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

xft ==> to blizzard

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

one screenshot shows a serif font, the other one shows a sans-serif font.
They are screenshots of browsers using two different fonts, obviously.

Comment 5

[André Dahlqvist]

Duh, sorry about that. Konqueror apparently cares more about what you have set
your General Font to than what your settinf for serif- and sans-serif are.
INVALID since it looks like shit in Konqueror too.

Comment 6

[R.K.Aa.]

verified invalid.
(And may I recommend the so called "MS webfonts", AFAIK available from
sourceforge as well as in some upgrade packages from Microsoft.)

Comment 7

[R.K.Aa.]

umm