Slick fonts in Fedora Core (howto)
 

I started this thread as information thread, it may be useful for most of us, moders can also make this sticky. As we know, fonts in default fedora are bold and somehow ugly, so the problem is in hinting, to enable bytecode hinting, and to make fonts looks like in windows, here are few easy steps:


1) Download the freetype source rpm in the official repository from here:
2) Move to the download directory, and extract the rpm with (as root):
3) Move to /usr/src/redhat/SPECS, and open freetype.spec with your editor of choice.

4) Change the 1 to a 0 in %define without_bytecode_interpreter 1 and save.

5) Build the rpm with:
Note that this depends on the xorg-devel package, so install it if you get errors.

6) Move to /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/ (or x86_64). The packages should be there. Do a
7) Now just restart X, and your fonts should look much better.

8) You can choose default font size for desktop 8 rather than 10, it will look much prettier

Installing tahoma font and choosing as desktop font, will be also pretty.

You should try using the freetype-2.1.10-6.src.rpm from Fedora Development instead.

As far as your step 8 and the using the Tahoma font that's a matter of choice, which is not bad BTW ;)

I thought about dev repo, but it will change, and may be tomorrow there will be another version of freetype, but this thread - not. :)