Improve font rendering in Linux

written at: 2024-11-27

Font rendering on a Mac is a lot better looking than either windows or most Linux distributions. There is an easy way to improve it a lot.

Edit the file '/etc/environment' and add or change the following:

FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="cff:no-stem-darkening=0 autofitter:no-stem-darkening=0"

Confirmed working on PopOS.

The original source/article can be found here: https://blog.aktsbot.in/no-more-blurry-fonts.html