How do I fix my issue with font rendering for the articles?

[Hund]

Hi! I'm trying out Liferea, for the first time in a decade or so. :) It's working good, except for some font issues.

This is Liferea (with bad font rendering for the article, but with good font rendering in the UI itself):

This is Firefox (with good font rendering):

I understand that this is due to the article is being rendered using Webkit. How do I fix this issue?

[lwindolf]

Which desktop environment do you use (Liferea tries to get a good font via dconf)?

[Hund]

Which desktop environment do you use (Liferea tries to get a good font via dconf)?

I'm using Xfce. I'm not really that familiar with graphical applications. I'll look up dconf.

[lwindolf]

Using XFCE explains the problem. DConf is GNOME stuff, which is missing on your setup. Liferea falls back more or less gracefully by using the font default of Webkit which turns out to look ugly.

As it is impossible (for me) to support multiple desktop environments I can only point you at this workaround to manually set a good font: https://lzone.de/liferea/blog/Liferea-Trick-10-Custom-CSS-for-Article-Rendering.html Try setting a font definition in div.content

[Hund]

Thanks. I have tried that already, but I couldn't make it work. What exactly should I add?

[lwindolf]

Replace the

// div.content {}

with e.g.

div.content {
    font-family: Sans;
    font-size: 12pt;
}

[Hund]

That didn't help. The text is still blurry.

[lwindolf]

Sorry, I cannot help further. Above is the way how to fully control the fonts Liferea does use. It's probably all about finding a good font combination on your system. So something not simply "Sans".

[Hund]

I tried using "DejaVu Sans Book", but that didn't work either. I'm not even sure it's possible to use anything like it.

Thank you for you time anyway. I'm hoping I'll be able to solve it somehow, so I can start using Liferea again. :)