Anti aliasing not present in theme

AdisonCavani / distro-grub-themes

A pack of GRUB2 themes for each Linux distribution

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Anti aliasing not present in theme #21

Closed LamprosPitsillos closed 3 years ago

LamprosPitsillos commented 3 years ago

Describe the bug Font is really blocky , not smooth at all.

Screenshots Sorry for the picture. PXL_20210728_144139178

Desktop (please complete the following information):

OS: Artix Linux
Resolution: 1920 x 1080

Additional context Followed the instructions and installed it manually.

AdisonCavani commented 3 years ago

I'll try to fix it, but I think Grub doesn't support anti-aliasing, so font might be aliased

AdisonCavani commented 3 years ago

After additional research I got to a conclusion, that it's not possible to generate anti-aliased Grub font. Currently Grub support fonts in .pf2 format and there isn't any option to change it.

LamprosPitsillos commented 3 years ago

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2010-01/msg00361.html I found this while researching, is .pff3 a thing? Because i don't see anyone using it.

LamprosPitsillos commented 3 years ago

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2010-01/msg00361.html I found this while researching, is .pff3 a thing? Because i don't see anyone using it.

After researching in grub docs, this is not a thing, and sadly i couldn't find a solution, all i can think of is just to use a smaller font size so it's not so obvious that it's blocky.

AdisonCavani commented 3 years ago

@LamprosPitsillos I tried generating font with some additional parameters. Can you try if it's better than previous? Just download new font and replace the old one.

LamprosPitsillos commented 3 years ago

I cant really tell a difference but i think its better now. Thank you for your time !

TKivai commented 3 years ago

I'm also having the same issue, although its not that much of a bother

But is there a reason why the font in the menu entries is blocky while the text at the bottom is smooth(shown below)? Could it be a difference in font families?

Desktop OS: Elementary OS Resolution: 1920 x 1080

Additional context I installed Elementary OS theme using grub customizer

AdisonCavani commented 3 years ago

But is there a reason why the font in the menu entries is blocky while the text at the bottom is smooth(shown below)? Could it be a difference in font families?

This font is on a background image, not rendered by Grub.