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I came from Windows and just found one bad thing in Ubuntu - Font is absolutely hard for read and ugly.

Look at this to see what I mean:

http://awesomescreenshot.com/0895jgi88d

http://awesomescreenshot.com/0d15jgi9cb

What font do you use?

dobey
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Liberation Sans for everything except fixed width. I use monospace for fixed width. Xubuntu x64. I'm grateful that Chrome renders fonts so well in Xubuntu. I would agree that in most other distros that I've tried except Elementary and Lubuntu font rendering in 64bit Chrome is sub-par. It's just as bad in 64bit Windows.

Jason Byrne
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Which font is displayed is determined by the css property font-family, it will list some options to match with browser's fonts to display. The browser's fonts are from system, in the usr/share/fonts directory, also you can run fc-list to show all available fonts.

The Ubuntu default fonts are ugly (IMO) so I copied the Mac fonts and put them in /usr/share/fonts/ directory, then Firefox/Chrome could pick these fonts from Mac to display, which give me a much better experience.

e.g. assume you have one font from San Francisco fonts which is SFNSText.ttf, to use it in Ubuntu, run:

$ sudo cp SFNSText.ttf /usr/share/fonts
$ fc-cache -v -f

Then you will see this font is available in your browser font settings.

Videonauth
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