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After installing and testing KDE's Dolphin for a while the font rendering (or maybe anti-aliasing?) in non-GTK (e.g. Chrome and Thunderbird) programs looks strange. Playing around with QT(4) and KDE settings didn't help.

Example of right render in Nautilus and the wrong in Thunderbird: Example of bad rendering

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    I half remember something similar --- it was something that created a ~/.fontconfig/* file and getting rid of it solved the problem. But I am not sure --- so a comment and not an answer.
    – Rmano
    Nov 5, 2014 at 13:59
  • Thanks a lot! Deleting a file called fonts.conf with wrong AA instructions helped to fix the issue. Nov 6, 2014 at 14:43

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Like Rmano guessed I had to delete ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf which included (wrong) settings for the antialiasing of fonts. Any problematic program started after deleting that file, rendered the fonts right again.

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If the config file mentioned in Marvin Janosch's answer doesn't exist, configuration can also be adjusted using Unity Tweak Tool.

Go to Fonts, and under Appearance, adjust Hinting.

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