Can you make my fonts crispy?

charliejj · October 27, 2020, 1:46pm

I am a journalist and I would like crisp fonts.

See the two pictures. OpenOffice Writer offers superlatively crisp lettering with anti-aliasing off. So easy to read!
$C:\fakepath\Open office crisp fonts.PNG$

But LibreOffice fails to replicate this. Even with anti-aliasing off, it still produces heavy, smudged lettering.

I am on Windows 10 with ClearType turned off (important).

I have tried

Turning off anti-aliasing in LibreOffice
Turning off “Use Skia for all rendering”
Using OpenCL
Not using OpenCL

Any advice on how to make LibreOffice display fonts how I’d like them?

Oh, and I’d recommend crisp fonts to you too. Much easier to read. I’m amazed by the reaction when I show co-workers how to generate crisp fonts on Windows on on browsers. Death to anti-aliasing!

Thanks,

Charlie

(edited by ajlittoz to display screenshots in question)

ve3oat · October 27, 2020, 8:44pm

Have you tried the Tweaks application? According to this article Tweaks allows you to control the ‘hinting’ quality of the font. Would that work for you?

EarnestAl · October 27, 2020, 10:37pm

All the text, the icons and the rulers in the LO screenshot are blurred. Is it a different screen? Is the screen at a non-native resolution? Start Menu > Settings > System > Display > Display Resolution check that it is recommended resolution. While you are there click on the link Advanced scaling settings and turn on Fix scaling for apps

charliejj · October 28, 2020, 10:13am

Thanks, but it’s not resolution. The two screenshots are from the same screen taken seconds apart. Everything other application on the screen is fine - it’s just text in LO I need to fix

charliejj · October 28, 2020, 10:16am

Tweaks app is for Ubuntu at a full system wide level - I’m in Windows 10, and it’s only LibreOffice that has this problem. But thank you for your idea

EarnestAl · October 28, 2020, 9:39pm

Have you looked at question 126419 ?

charliejj · October 29, 2020, 10:43am

Intriguing advice! I followed it - and it’s close. The fonts are different - crispier - but not in the same way OpenOffice Writer renders them

Here’s the result for LibreOffice when the advice in Question 126419 is followed

Getafix · December 13, 2021, 2:32am

for LINUX install GTK to smooth font -
libreoffice-gtk3

ajlittoz · December 13, 2021, 7:51am

@Getafix: this module package will affect rendering of the icon set in the UI and must be consistent with the active desktop manager: libreoffice-gtk3 for GNOME and kin, libreoffice-kf5 for KDE Plasma. The default libreoffice-x11 is effectively a poor fallback.

Font rendering is not impacted by the UI renderer.

Getafix · December 13, 2021, 8:05am

For me it did work, hence I posted

Thanks & Regards,

anon87010807 · December 13, 2021, 12:26pm

Getafix: The OP is on Windows, though, so your suggestion wouldn’t help him/her.

Getafix · December 13, 2021, 1:01pm

On windows I have no issues, I had this issue on Ubuntu 21.10 & this resolved it for me, hence posted

Thanks & Regards,