Settings for Ubuntu font rendering

Font Hinting/hintstyle: Typeface fine-tuning, Chinese font hinting production is very troublesome, so micron Black Chinese is not hinting, Microsoft ya Black have.

Autohint: No hinting font can open hinting is autohint credit, but the effect is, after all, http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/18860.html "> automatic processing, Not human, have good and bad, see for yourself.

Subpixel rendering: Secondary pixel rendering.

anti-aliasing: abbreviation AA, anti-aliasing, commonly known as AA rendering, font smoothing, KDE is called "Rounded font corner."

The font rendering engine on the freetype:linux.

The font rendering engine on the pango:linux.

Cairo, libxft: two base libraries related to font display, they have not turned on the above rendering directly affects the program's font display, Ubuntu's two libraries are enabled by default rendering.

Patent

All hinting-related patents expired in May 2010 (originally owned by Apple and Microsoft), and FreeType's version 2.4 began by default hinting font algorithm.

Rendering settings

Fontconfig: You can set the hinting and AA of certain fonts individually by editing the Fontconfig configuration file.

Gnome "Skin preferences": Set Gnome 2 font rendering.

KDE system settings: Set the font rendering under KDE SC 4

Fontconfig

Configuration file path

GNOME and KDE settings are read

~/.fonts.conf #用户配置文件, what to do, only the current user to run the program effectively some people pursue the ultimate effect, English fonts, Chinese font rendering settings are different, you have to move this file.

GNOME

It is said that Cairo has bugs, see solve the Gnome global font rendering settings and Fontconfig conflict. More satisfied with the elegant black display effect

KDE

KDE system Settings-application interface-font, settings are for all fonts (in fact, but also to change the fontconfig, but the change is global), not as fontconfig, but can be broken, but the "System settings" option to make more detailed settings based on the Fontconfig (but you have to edit the fontconfig configuration file).