Ubuntu – like font rendering – is it even possible? (solved)

[Member oparun]

I’m curious: can one get ubuntu-like font rendering in Debian? is it possible? And if so – what should I do? I’m playing with 19.4 and font rendering here seems kinda off: I can only compare it to my ubuntu 14.04 install (ESM support). There I use LXDE desktop and fonts inside GTK apps and the browser look much better.

What should i do and can i do something about that at all?

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can one get ubuntu-like font rendering in Debian?, depends on desktop and graphics setup. Buntu is using fully fledged desktops,
you can pretty easily get the same on MX, on antiX not with the standard desktop environments and that can be a rocky road,

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To improve your font rendering (made on freshly installed system before 1st upgrade):
– delete all pre-installed fonts thought console (use apt-cache search if needed)
– execute fc-cache -r and sudo fc-cache -r
– download Windows 10 fonts for ArchLinux from GitHub (you can easily google that package), unpack it and install
– install ttf-ubuntu-font-family
– execute fc-cache -f -v and sudo fc-cache -f -v
– execute sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig

you may also want to download monaco font from GitHub, it will look good in your console

cheers!

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This is also solved. I don’t know how to close this thread.

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