I know this is a pretty common bug, however none of the solutions I could find helped me.
Fonts are ugly in Java applications
Here are two examples (Processing & PyCharm):
(Astonishingly "Events" looks just fine here)
As I mentioned above, there are many solutions out there, but none of them fixed the problem for me:
- Enabling Anti-Aliasing
- Using GTK LookAndFeel
- Installing
fontconfig-infinality - Installing the Oracle JDK (instead of OpenJDK)
- Installing the OpenJDK-Infinality patch
How can I fix the font rendering?
Some useful (maybe?) information:
$ uname -a
Linux scriptim 4.10.10-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Apr 12 18:50:28 CEST 2017 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ java -version
Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS: -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on, -Dswing.aatext=true
java version "1.8.0_131"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_131-b11)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.131-b11, mixed mode)
Best Answer
Add
_JAVA_OPTIONS='-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on'to your/etc/environmentfile.If you are running java applications from console, add
export _JAVA_OPTIONS='-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on'to your.bashrc(if you run bash shell) or.zshrc(if you run Z shell).Log out then log in again.