<?xml version="1.0"?><!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"><!-- the cathectic LCD tweaks, from linuxquestions.org, http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?postid=1361098#post1361098 --><fontconfig><!-- Disable sub-pixel rendering. X detects it anyway, and if you set this as well, it just looks really horrible --> <match target="font" > <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" > <const>rgb</const> </edit> </match> <match target="font" > <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" > <bool>true</bool> </edit> </match> <match target="font" > <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" > <const>hintfull</const> </edit> </match><!-- The first part of the 'magic.' This makes the fonts start to look nice, but some of the shapes will be distorted, so hinting is needed still --><!-- Autohinter is not turned on automatically. Only disable this if you have recompiled Freetype with the bytecode interpreter, which is run automatically. Although to be honest, Freetype are right, there isn't much difference between the two. Note that OpenOffice is built against the bytecode interpreter, so even if you have compiled it and override it with the autohinter, OOo will still use the bytecode interpreter --> <match target="pattern" > <edit mode="assign" name="autohint" > <bool>true</bool> </edit> </match><!-- Helvetica is a non true type font, and will look bad. This replaces it with whatever is the default sans-serif font --> <match target="pattern" name="family" > <test name="family" qual="any" > <string>Helvetica</string> </test> <edit mode="assign" name="family" > <string>sans-serif</string> </edit> </match> <dir>~/.fonts</dir> <match target="font" > <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" > <bool>true</bool> </edit> </match></fontconfig>