Font *sucks* in linux

[StuckMojo]

At least in FF3 3.0.14 on ubuntu jaunty it looks like total shit. The old forms looked great. it's now giant and not antialiased and nearly unreadable.

 

[newnameman]

Post a screencap.

 

[ForumsAdmin]

Post a screencap.

Yeah, please do. Its a standard font - Arial. Not sure whats going on.

JohnC

 

[ViRGE]

Yeah, please do. Its a standard font - Arial. Not sure whats going on.

JohnC

Ubuntu doesn't come with Arial, Times New Roman, etc. So a lot of sites end up looking weird. Here's AT for example under Ubuntu + Firefox.

Default fonts
MS Core Fonts installed

 

[zoiks]

http://www.sharpfonts.com

 

[StuckMojo]

Yes, but the point was that the old forums looked great...as well as the regular anandtech site.

shitty font 1: http://www.thewickedtribe.net/~jon/anand/cap1.jpg

shitty font 2: http://www.thewickedtribe.net/~jon/anand/cap2.jpg

front page looks good: http://www.thewickedtribe.net/~jon/anand/anand.jpg

I don't have a cap of the old forums unfortunately...

 

[StuckMojo]

I installed the ms core fonts and now it looks good. Check out the difference, particularly look at my username in the top right corner in cap1 vs cap1-good:

http://www.thewickedtribe.net/~jon/anand/cap1-good.jpg

http://www.thewickedtribe.net/~jon/anand/cap2-good.jpg

Yes, I realize that this fixed the problem, but again the point is that the old forums looked great without this font package...

 

[dighn]

I installed the ms core fonts and now it looks good. Check out the difference, particularly look at my username in the top right corner in cap1 vs cap1-good:

http://www.thewickedtribe.net/~jon/anand/cap1-good.jpg

http://www.thewickedtribe.net/~jon/anand/cap2-good.jpg

Yes, I realize that this fixed the problem, but again the point is that the old forums looked great without this font package...

I don't think you can blame anything but Linux for not providing decent support for such a common font like Arial.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

It was WWAAAYYY worse than those shots with FT in Ubuntu. Linux font support just plain sucks, always has.

 

[StuckMojo]

It was WWAAAYYY worse than those shots with FT in Ubuntu. Linux font support just plain sucks, always has.

Re: linux font support: this is true

However, the FT forums used to look just fine for me without the ms font package, as does the normal anandtech site. Perhaps the theme should use the same font as www.anandtech.com...

Anyway, fixed for me so I don't much care anymore...plus I don't have a screeny of the FT forums to prove it anyway.