Tip: For anti-aliasing, “RGBA” refers to the type of colours that are applied to smooth edges, specifically: Red, Green, Blue, and Alpha. “RGBA” order is used to configure how the antialiasing effect is applied. “Anti-aliasing” is a process of trying to smooth out jagged edges, especially noticeable on diagonal lines and curves by applying a subtle blurring effect to improve image quality. “Hinting” is a technique of adjusting how characters are displayed by aligning them horizontally and vertically with the physical pixels on the screen, in an attempt to minimise blurring around straight lines. The “Text scaling factor” adjusts the scaling of all affected fonts, with larger numbers scaling the fonts up. In the “Pick a Font” screen, you can select a new font, change the font size, and see a preview. If you want to switch back to the default appearance, the default fonts are “Ubuntu Regular”, “Ubuntu Regular”, “Sans Regular”, “Monospace Regular” and “Ubuntu Medium” respectively. Additionally, the bottom text box is used to show how the resulting font and font size will look. In the “Pick a Font” window, you can use the top text box to search for a font by name. Each of the five font categories affects a different portion of the operating system and apps that follow the system theme.īy clicking on the currently used font for any of the five font categories, you can select a new font, or configure the font size. Apps that set their own fonts such as Libre Office Writer or Google Chrome will be unaffected. Note: The font options only affect some applications. “Window title” font changes the font used for the window title at the top of each window. The “Monospace font” changes the font used by terminal applications.
“Document font” is intended to be used when displaying documents, however, most document viewers use their own font settings, so this doesn’t see much use. “Desktop font” is used exclusively for the labels of desktop icons. The first of the five fonts “Default font” is used for most text across the operating system. Tip: The “Super” key is the name that many Linux distributions give to the Windows key or Apple “Command” key to avoid any trademark issues. To do so, press the Super key, then type “Font Selection” and hit enter. To configure the fonts that Linux Mint uses you need to open the font selector tool.
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