.fonts.conf

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Create a file called ~/.fonts.conf

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">

<!-- the cathectic LCD tweaks, from linuxquestions.org,
 http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?postid=1361098#post1361098 -->

<fontconfig>

<!-- Disable sub-pixel rendering.
 X detects it anyway, and if you set this as well, it just looks really horrible  -->
<match target="font" >
    <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
     <const>none</const>
    </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
    <edit mode="assign" name="hinting">
     <bool>true</bool>
    </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
    <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
     <const>hintfull</const>
    </edit>
 </match>

<!-- The first part of the 'magic.'
 This makes the fonts start to look nice,
 but some of the shapes will be distorted, so hinting is needed still -->
 <match target="font" >
    <edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
     <bool>true</bool>
    </edit>
 </match>

<!-- Autohinter is not turned on automatically.
 Only disable this if you have recompiled Freetype with the bytecode interpreter,
 which is run automatically.<br />  -->
 <match target="pattern" >
    <edit mode="assign" name="autohint">
     <bool>true</bool>
    </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">

         <test name="weight" compare="more">
                 <const>medium</const>
         </test>
         <edit name="autohint" mode="assign">
                 <bool>false</bool>
         </edit>

 </match>
<!-- Helvetica is a non true type font, and will look bad.
 This replaces it with whatever is the default sans-serif font -->
 <match target="pattern" name="family" >
    <test name="family" qual="any" >
     <string>Helvetica</string>
    </test>
    <edit mode="assign" name="family" >
     <string>sans-serif</string>
    </edit>
 </match>
 <dir>~/.fonts</dir>
</fontconfig>