Improve fonts in Debian without Infinality

A few weeks ago I showed you how improve the smoothing of fonts in Debian doing use of infinity, and although the improvement in my case was clearly noticeable, I noticed that the fonts reached a point where they were blurred.

Click on the image and see it in full size. There is another way to improve the anti-aliasing of fonts in Debian without having to install infinity. The steps are the following:

1- We create a backup of the .fonts.conf file:

$ cp .fonts.conf .fonts.conf.old

2- We open the file .fonts.conf and put inside:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="autohint" >
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
<const>hintslight</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
<const>rgb</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter">
<const>lcddefault</const>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>

3- We close the session or restart the computer.

That should be enough now. 😉