Font Rendering Issue - GNOME 48 Blurry Text

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Hi Guys,

I was finally looking to ditch windows but the blurry/weird fonts is really making me rethink. This is consistent with both Gnome 48 and KDE Plasma. I have a 1080P Samsung Monitor if that info helps…

Now I have had to reinstall Windows since I have to work haha. Here’s everything I have tried:

  • Hinting: Slight, Medium, Full
  • Subpixel rendering: RGB and Grayscale
  • All LCD Filter options: Default, Light, Legacy, None
  • Different fonts: Default, Cantarell, Roboto, Inter, Segoe UI
  • gtk-hint-font-metrics=1 in settings.ini

Windows is completely fine and so is LXQT. I have only tried with Debian since I am comfortable with it. I can’t use LXQT because for some reason it can’t save display config so I can’t switch my primary monitor :confused: plus I loved how GNOME looked so I was hoping it works :slight_smile:

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A lot of work has been done in Gtk 4 to fix issues with “blurry text”. For the majority of people in the majority of situations, it’s quite good. If you still have an issue with the text rendering you will need to be more specific about what exactly you are seeing. Please:

  • Include screenshots, and
  • Point out specific issues in those screenshots.

Other useful information to provide includes the physical size of the screen, and whether you are using fractional scaling.

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