Many fonts are rendering wrong or very bad especially CJK and webfont(MS) For example rendering of Japanese: VNDB page of port narcissu (https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195800) : https://vndb.org/v10 Katakana rendered only half, part of characters is "transparent/invisible" Howto fix it: bring your local.conf to this kind of $ vi(or ee) /usr/local/etc/fonts/local.conf <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> <fontconfig> <match target="font"> <edit mode="assign" name="hinting"> <bool>true</bool> </edit> </match> <match target="font"> <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"> <const>hintslight</const> </edit> </match> <match target="font"> <edit mode="assign" name="antialias"> <bool>true</bool> </edit> </match> <match target="pattern"> <test qual="any" name="size" compare="less_eq"> <int>12</int> </test> <edit name="antialias" mode="assign"> <bool>false</bool> </edit> </match> </fontconfig> Not forget add this if you use lcd: <match target="font"> <edit mode="assign" name="lcddefault"> <const>lcddefault</const> </edit> </match> <edit name="rgba" mode="assign"> <const>rgb</const> </edit> </match> Rebuild the font caches and restart Firefox or better xorg-server $ fc-cache -f Now fonts is readable but turned into "rainbow" to fix it: bring your fonts.conf to same kind of local.conf $vi(or ee) /home/youruser/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf $ fc-cache -f If it still happen replace webfont with analog from ChromeOS: https://freshports.org/x11-fonts/croscorefonts-fonts-ttf/ https://freshports.org/x11-fonts/crosextrafonts-carlito-ttf/ https://freshports.org/x11-fonts/crosextrafonts-caladea-ttf/ add to your local.conf: <alias> <family>serif</family> <prefer><family>Tinos</family></prefer> </alias> <alias> <family>sans-serif</family> <prefer><family>Arimo</family></prefer> </alias> <alias> <family>sans</family> <prefer><family>Arimo</family></prefer> </alias> <alias> <family>monospace</family> <prefer><family>Cousine</family></prefer> </alias> <match> <test name="family"><string>Arial</string></test> <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong"> <string>Arimo</string> </edit> </match> <match> <test name="family"><string>Helvetica</string></test> <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong"> <string>Arimo</string> </edit> </match> <match> <test name="family"><string>Verdana</string></test> <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong"> <string>Arimo</string> </edit> </match> <match> <test name="family"><string>Tahoma</string></test> <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong"> <string>Arimo</string> </edit> </match> <match> <test name="family"><string>Times New Roman</string></test> <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong"> <string>Tinos</string> </edit> </match> <match> <test name="family"><string>Times</string></test> <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong"> <string>Tinos</string> </edit> </match> <match> <test name="family"><string>Consolas</string></test> <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong"> <string>Cousine</string> </edit> </match> <match> <test name="family"><string>Courier New</string></test> <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong"> <string>Cousine</string> </edit> </match> <match> <test name="family"><string>Calibri</string></test> <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong"> <string>Carlito</string> </edit> </match> <match> <test name="family"><string>Cambria</string></test> <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong"> <string>Caladea</string> </edit> </match> $ fc-cache -f For programs who not support it: /home/yourname/.Xresources Xft.autohint: 0 Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault #optional LCD Xft.hintstyle: hintfull Xft.hinting: 1 Xft.antialias: 1 Xft.rgba: rgb #optional LCD Xft.dpi: 170 #optional use your real dpi Problem with Chinese is Hanzi rendering only halfsize and many application such Firefox not make any differences between Chine and Japanese. I don't know how fix it. Cyrillic have troubles with gaps size between characters. Fonts rendering are differences between application.
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