Smooth font setup on Debian

[Yago16]

I am new in debian operating system. I mean I just newly work with debian and just want to know mr about this. Here I just want to enable fonts in debian. So, I don’t have any idea how I can do this. Please anyone here provides me some detail which helps me to do this. I also ask this to my friend but he don’t have any idea how to do this or how can I enable this.

[Enriquee]

I am utilizing Debian unbalanced for last 4 to 5 months and could not configure fonts correctly. Fonts were not smooth, setup msttcorefonts, tweaked font config, anti aliasing and so on, but outcome was not fine. I establish a font.conf from someplace over internet and it has distorted smoothness radically. I am truly overcome with it.
Copy font config, save it as font conf and change it with .font.conf of your home file.

cd
mv .font.conf font.conf.bak
mv font conf .font.conf

Regenerate X Server and observe the dissimilarity. It is worth to attempt. If you akin to it, delete font.conf.bak file. You can utilize similar configurations in Ubuntu or Kubuntu also.
font-conf :

<? Xml version="1.0"?>
<! DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="ass" name="at" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="ass" name="ra" >
   <const>none</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="ass" name="hin" >
   <bool>false</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="ass" name="hs" >
   <const>hint none</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="ass" name="aa" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
</fontconfig>

Enjoy the smooth Fonts !

[DanielV]

Fonts have all the time been an extremely sensitive subject below Linux for me, too, and I have hated the results each time right later than installing the MS core fonts. Providentially, my fonts have seemed immense below Arch for the previous only some years, now. I must say here that this is really a greater feature of Debian. It really looks great.

[Emiliio]

You can as well go into about: config in Firefox and do a search for free type and turn the suggestions on. I have not had a trouble with fonts not being smooth on my Debian box. I utilize the Liberation-ttf fonts from Red Hat and in KDE I only switched smoothing on. Obviously, I could have distorted something and not understand it because I have had this /home partition for ages.

[mv]

Actually, I have that Firefox flag turned on, as well the KDE smoothing font alternative, but with this config I can choose a few fonts which did not seem very well earlier, even GTK based applications seems improved than 3 days before and too, I have the gnome smooth font flags turned on. This alternative is a pleasant global improvement.

[mesterio]

Here is the .font.conf file I utilize. It is not that much dissimilar than the one initially posted, but it has some dissimilarity: it replaces the Helvetica font with 'sans-serif', because it is not a true type font that looks awful. As well, it turns off ating on bold fonts as those be inclined to get too wide.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<!-- Disable sub pixel rendering.
 X perceives it anyway, and if you situate this too, it just seems truly awful -->
<match target="font" >
	<edit mode="ass" name="ra" >
	 <const>none</const>
	</edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
	<edit mode="ass" name="hin">
	 <bool>true</bool>
	</edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
	<edit mode="ass" name="hs">
	 <const>hint full</const>
	</edit>
 </match>

<!-- The first part of the 'magic.'
 This makes the fonts begin to appear good,
 But some of the forms will be unclear, so hin is required still -->
 <match target="font" >
	<edit mode="ass" name="aa">
	 <bool>true</bool>
	</edit>
 </match>

<!-- Ater is not twisted on automatically.
 Just disable this if you have recompiled Free type with the byte code interpreter, which is run automatically. <br /> -->
 <match target="pattern" >
	<edit mode="ass" name="at">
	 <bool>true</bool>
	</edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
		 <test name="wt" compare="mr">
				 <const>medium</const>
		 </test>
		 <edit name="at" mode="ass">
				 <bool>false</bool>
		 </edit>
 </match>
<!-- Helvetica is a non true type font, and will seem awful.
 This changed it with whatever is the default sans-serif font -->
 <match target="pattern" name="fm" >
	<test name="fm" qual="any" >
	 <string>Helvetica</string>
	</test>
	<edit mode="ass" name="fm" >
	 <string>sans-serif</string>
	</edit>
 </match>
 <dir>~/.fonts</dir>
</fontconfig>