Ugly fonts in IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 14.0 Windows 8.1

Question

I use macType which renders fonts beautifully elsewhere except Intellij.

I tried to configure Intellij through these Java options

-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings = On
-Dswing.aatext = True

but it did not help. I'm not sure why but Intelij does not let me choose Ubuntu Bold as the coding font. The rendering in sublime text 2 is much better. I'm using Windows 8.1. What to do?

I changed Parameters of useSystemAAFontSettings to lcd, but it did not help. Although it seems to me that in Sublime Text the font is a little fuzzy, I use the font Ubuntu Bold, this wine macType?

In Intelij font appears to be fraying. The Ubuntu Mono font in Intelij with MacType does not look right - brackets [ and ] are poorly displayed.

Intelij Source Code:

Intelij Ubuntu Mono:

Sublime Text Ubuntu Bold:

Answer 1

Java applications don't work well with MacType. Take a look at the discussion here: https://code.google.com/p/mactype/issues/detail?id=53

You could try gdipp instead. https://code.google.com/p/gdipp/. You may have to set the embolden parameter in its settings file to 6 or 7 atleast for all the glyphs to display correctly.

Intellij does not allow you to choose Ubuntu Bold because it is not a monospace font, but if you check Show Only Monospaced fonts, it should work.