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    <p>I am overriding the paintComponent() method of a JCOmponent and drawing text in a window. I'm running on Ubuntu and using the font "Ubuntu Mono" (the default font for the Ubuntu text editor). When my java app displays the text, it looks wimpy and blurry. What am I doing wrong?</p> <p>I'm drawing the text like this:</p> <pre><code>graphics.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING, RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON); graphics.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_TEXT_ANTIALIASING, RenderingHints.VALUE_TEXT_ANTIALIAS_ON); graphics.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_RENDERING, RenderingHints.VALUE_RENDER_QUALITY); Font font = new Font("Ubuntu Mono", Font.PLAIN, 18); fontMetrics = graphics.getFontMetrics(font); graphics.setFont(font); graphics.drawString(value, getX(), getY() + fontMetrics.getHeight()); </code></pre> <p>In my java app, it looks like this:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/aG3Kh.png" alt="Java app text"></p> <p>In the Ubuntu TextEditor, it looks like this:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/XRioE.png" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p>Edit: Would performance suffer if <code>.png</code> images were used instead of <code>drawText()</code>? This is a business application, not a game that requires smooth animation.</p> <p>Edit: I changed the colors to match TextEditor's colors and that actually helped a little on the quality, but the characters are still so much thinner... you almost can't see a ".". In gimp I can recreate the TextEditor look by creating text w/ the right font w/ antialiasing on.</p>
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    1. COI'm getting the feeling that maybe Java (or maybe Swing) just doesn't have as much control as I need. I changed the font in netbeans (uses swing) to match my app's font and it looks the same. *groan* I don't have time schedule in this project to learn C++? It looks like all the major browsers are written in C++. Any thoughts?
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    2. COThis [`LayoutTest`](http://stackoverflow.com/a/8282330/230513) using `TextLayout` may be useful.
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    3. COCould this be a resolution issue. As I recall it (it's been awhile since I looked this stuff up), Java runs at 72 DPI (or is 92 DPI??)
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