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Bad Font rendering on Linux (Ubuntu/Linux Mint) #14610
Description
Prerequisites
- Did you perform a cursory search to see if your bug or enhancement is already reported? (Blurred letters Brackets in ubuntu 18.04 #14451 & possibly related to Problem with letters in MacOs - it looks more blurry than other editors #14481)
- Can you reproduce the problem with
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Description
Obvious render issues have been highlighted (These are more pronounced in Dark Themes)
Steps to Reproduce
- Download & install Brackets 1.13 (after repackaging according to Unable to install in Ubuntu 18.04 #14338 & Brackets is forcing to have libcurl3, and does not accept libcurl4 #14171)
- Open Brackets, notice the badly rendered fonts
- Relaunch with all extensions (whatever extension is on a fresh install) disabled
- Notice the badly rendered fonts persist
Expected behavior: Fonts to rendered smoothly like in any other Editor
Actual behavior: Badly rendered fonts
Versions
Please include the OS and what version of the OS you're running.
Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon Tara [Linux 4.15.0-20-generic #21-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 24 06:15:38 UTC 2018 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux]
Please include the version of Brackets. You can find it under Help -> About Brackets (Windows and Linux) or Brackets -> About Brackets (macOS)
Brackets-Release 1.13 build 1.13.0-17696 (release 49d29a8) 32-bit
Activity
cosmin-vi commentedon Feb 14, 2019
@toxicmender
It seems Brackets is using bitmap fonts and it uses the Linux
libfreetype6package for font rendering.Prior to Ubuntu 18.04 (on which Linux Mint 19 is based), the
libfreetype6package version was 2.8.0 (libfreetype6_2.8-0.2, available in theartfulubuntu packages).But Ubuntu 18.04 (and hence Linux Mint 19) switched to
libfreetype6version 2.8.1 (libfreetype6_2.8.1-2ubuntu2, available in thebionicandcosmicubuntu packages) which has a bitmap font rendering bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freetype/+bug/1769132That bug was fixed in the next
libfreetype6version (libfreetype6_2.9.1-3, available in thediscoubuntu packages), but it's not available yet.You can check this long thread for some info and fix suggestions: #14290
To fix Brackets font rendering you need to either downgrade to
libfreetype6_2.8-0.2or upgrade tolibfreetype6_2.9.1-3, only the downgrade worked for me.Here is the downgrade fix that worked for me:
Download
libfreetype6_2.8-0.2based on your platform from:http://snapshot.debian.org/package/freetype/2.8-0.2/#libfreetype6_2.8-0.2
e.g.
http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20170630T215111Z/pool/main/f/freetype/libfreetype6_2.8-0.2_amd64.deb
Open a terminal in the folder where you downloaded the file and run:
sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install ./libfreetype6_2.8-0.2_amd64.debsudo apt-mark hold libfreetype6(the last command is to mark
libfreetype6so that it's not auto-updated by Linux back to the buggy version)tiagofrancafernandes commentedon May 10, 2019
Try this,
work for me,
http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20170630T215111Z/pool/main/f/freetype/libfreetype6_2.8-0.2_amd64.deb
I get thits in this post
#14451 (comment)
[-]bad Font rendering[/-][+]Bad Font rendering on Linux (Ubuntu/Linux Mint)[/+]Krelh commentedon Nov 24, 2019
I fixed it by opening MATE Tweak (I use ubuntu mate) then to Windows then Fonts and here you can choose Rendering option which by default is set on Subpixel smoothing (LCDs), if you select Best shapes all these bad pixels will dissapear
gaetgu commentedon Feb 12, 2020
@cosmin-vi 's solution worked for me. Thanks so much!
christyanbrayan commentedon Mar 7, 2020
This issue is open for a while, but I hope someone can help me.
I use elementaryOS 5.1, based on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS, the atual package is libfreetype6 2.9.1-0asaw, and here is how the newest version, but i have the same problem with the fonts. I researched but I couldn't solve. Someone knows how to resolve this?
Krelh commentedon Mar 7, 2020
as I said before you have to reach out you system font settings (if it's ubuntu based then it should be in Appearance) then into font section you have to choose Best shapes
christyanbrayan commentedon Mar 8, 2020
so, only chose other font?
Krelh commentedon Mar 8, 2020
@christyanbrayan no, you have to change only rendering type it's all about the rendering not font you use. I will put a image to show you better
I never used elementaryOS so I can't help you find font settings but I'm sure it's not so hard. You should search for appearance or tweak
christyanbrayan commentedon Mar 9, 2020
@Krelh
I researched it here and it looks like it doesn't have this configuration natively, but I found the 'Infinality' solution, which I still haven't been able to install for some reason. I'll see here, but thanks anyway
tlotr commentedon Mar 22, 2020
I am using ZorinOS 15. I used the Gnome Tweak tool to make the changes to font rendering. The below settings worked for me.
christyanbrayan commentedon Mar 27, 2020
@tlotr thank you! finally something that worked, I was almost giving up on using the my favorite editor
maxton-projects commentedon Dec 12, 2020
@tlotr thank you!
This really helps.
aayushchugh commentedon Jan 16, 2021
@tlotr That Worked thanks I was reinstalling brackets but it was not working finally thank god
apodtele commentedon Apr 12, 2021
The bug might come from mishandling of padding in sub-pixel bitmaps. It is best to trust FreeType here.