Linked by Gilboa Davara on Thu 30th Jun 2005 12:29 UTC
If you've heard about Linux and feel like giving it a go or if you want to try Linux but you're too afraid it'll shew up your computer, this article is for you. Read it, feel free to take what you need and ignore the rest. This is not a tutorial, it's a README-FIRST-like article. It should help you to take that first dive.
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I have an LCD screen and the black fonts that are supposed to be black have a color problem. It doesn't matter what setting I set the RGB hinting to. The font edges are still screwed. Sometimes I see a little bit or red and sometimes it's green...etc. In Windows XP, my black fonts are always BLACK!
I played around with the settings a lot and linux simply doesn't have a correctly implemented TTF renderer. Of course I still prefer using Linux over Windows, but I'm still not 100% happy with fonts.
You probably have subpixel rendering misconfigured. Try switching between BGR, RGB, VBGR, and VRGB to see which one eliminates the coloring. If it's still there, just turn off subpixel rendering altogether (Windows does not use subpixel rendering unless you turn it on).
Subpixel rendering uses the color subpixels of an lcd screen to creat smoother edges, but some people seem to notice the colors while others don't.