Improvements to Dark Mode in Zotero 7 on Linux

mistune · September 29, 2024

Found this on reddit and I wanted to share it here in this community because it made dark mode much better on my setup. From the comments, they say it involves enabling stem darkening. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/16lwgnj/is_it_possible_to_improve_font_rendering_on_linux/

sudo nano /etc/environment

FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="cff:no-stem-darkening=0 autofitter:no-stem-darkening=0"

poettli · September 30, 2024

Be careful, in my case it is messing up the Japanese fonts display. Left is without, right, with:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u2119014/616mj3g36ecy5d8fhhpv.png

Edit:
I performed some more tests, and the issue seems to only impact pdf.js in general. Left is Zotero 7.0.5, center is Firefox 130.0.1 and right is Evince 42.3. (Chrome 129.0.6668.70 also correctly displays the fonts.)
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u2119014/9lb315evnh738aadssxm.png