Suddenly my font looks worse

Víctor Victorià

8/29/24, 11:22 AM

I have been using Source Sans Pro in Ubuntu 23.04 without problem. Suddenly, font changed its readability for the system but not in the browser. I would like to know how to fix it.

I'm thinking it may be one of these reasons:

a) Updating changed something (updates hadn't been working for some time so I clicked 'default' in the 'Authentication tab in Updates manager)

b) changing the icon theme changed something (but it doesn't work again when reversed)

c) Unintentionally I changed fonts configuration. To me it seems unchanged (I attach a capture with the current configuration)

d) Some tweaks that I had done via terminal, which I can't remember, in order to improve them no longer work.

My current fonts configuration:
The font looked this way everywhere, not only in Chrome. For me, this is the good way:
The font started looking that way across different parts in the system:

Thank you very much

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Nmath

8/29/24, 1:36 PM

(a) and (d) need more detail. Updates not working indicates a problem with your package manager. Don't ignore these kinds of problems- they typically don't resolve themselves and problems snowball when dependencies are affected. If you ran stuff in your terminal to "tweak" fonts, then you need to be able to figure out what you did. If it was recent, check the bash logs. If It wasn't recent, then find a way to jog your memory. Presumably you followed some commands you found online. What would you have changed and where would you have obtained instructions to do so?

Víctor Victorià

8/30/24, 6:10 AM

Thank you for your reply. There were so many problems and I am too new to the system to solve them, so I decided to reinstall everything and bear in mind not to do strange things this time.

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