Lousy fonts in Firefox

[fearby]

Firefox is great but the fonts are really poor and look too small despite incresing the font size in preferences.

Konqueror fonts are much etter - how do I get the best of both worlds?

 

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[arctic]

go to the firefox preferences and change all fonts to sans-serif except the monospace entry. reduce the size of the fonts to 14 instead of 16 (default).

a question is: which dpi do you use as default on your system for font rendering? 75 or 100?

Edited November 19, 2004 by arctic

[fearby]

go to the firefox preferences and change all fonts to sans-serif except the monospace entry. reduce the size of the fonts to 14 instead of 16 (default).

a question is: which dpi do you use as default on your system for font rendering? 75 or 100?

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THanks for the reply - as for font rendering I stick with "system setting" - should I change it?

[arctic]

this is absolutely your choice. you can try a differnet font-rendering dpi and if it doesn't help/satisfy you, you can always switch back to the "standard-settings".

[adamw]

dpi isn't really a 'set it to what you like' setting, it's a setting with a purpose and a definite way to get a correct value. Measure your physical screen horizontally in inches. Divide the result into your horizontal resolution (1024, for instance, if you use 1024x768 resolution). Voila, that's your correct dpi setting. Font sizes aren't really relative; each one has a 'correct' physical size. 12 point text should always be a certain real physical size; setting the correct dpi for your screen ensures that 12 point text on your monitor will be the 'correct' physical size. This is mostly important when it comes to printing, because printers always use the 'correct' size for fonts. If your screen dpi setting is correct, then when you print something out, all the text will be the exact same size on the page as it was on the screen. This is good. :)