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The fonts are weird to look at and are surrounded by fuzziness (it's hard to see on these pictures):

radiance font skewed

When using the Ambiance theme this does not occur:

ambiance fonts not skewed

I've tried messing with hinting options in Ubuntu Tweak. It would seem that, when using ambiance, everything except the top bar is not affected. All fonts change visibly when I move from "maximum" to "no hinting" and vice versa, but the fonts on the top bar appear to stay the same.

jcora
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I had the same problem (on 12.04.3) and it turned out to be a font antialiasing issue. I switched it from Rgba to Grayscale (using gnome-tweak-tool, but Ubuntu Tweak will undoubtedly have an option for that as well) and the fuzzy colored edges went away. So far, I haven't been able to detect any adverse effect of switching this setting (i.e. noticeably ugly fonts elsewhere in the DE).

Oh, and you need to hover over/click on the top bar text labels for the change to take effect. Or at least I did :) Good luck!

dlukes
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