Android Studio not correctly rendering font on Ubuntu - android-studio

Question

Below is the picture of Android Studio when I first installed it:
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with Oracle Java 7. But the fonts are looking very ugly. They are not looking like they look when I see them on eclipse.
Earlier when I installed NetBeans, I had same problem too.

Answer 1

There actually is a solution. You need to install JDK font fix as follows:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:no1wantdthisname/openjdk-fontfix
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk
Then, open studio.vmoptions and optionally studio64.vmoptions in your android-studio/bin directory, and add following lines to both of them (the first one might be already there):
-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on
-Dswing.aatext=true
-Dswing.defaultlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel
After you reboot, the font rendering is just fine. To get the most Eclipse-like experience, go to File, Settings, Editor, Colors & Fonts, Font. Save the current scheme as a new one, and change the font to "Monospaced" with size of 14.

Answer 2

I've tried several suggested tweaks, tried using FontFix Patched JDK, FontForge, and editing studio.vmoptions; though some of these could show some improvement, it does not come close to the font rendering quality of the non-swing apps like eclipse.
I've found this to be the easiest and cleanest solution:
rm -r ~/.AndroidStudioBeta
If you have installed openjdk-fontfix, or made changes to studio.vmoptions, it is better you revert back those changes to their defaults.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:no1wantdthisname/openjdk-fontfix
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:no1wantdthisname/openjdk-fontfix
Remove all custom-added JAVA environment variables ($JAVA_HOME, $PATH:$HOME/bin:$JAVA_HOME/bin). Check in files, /etc/profile, ~/.profile, ~/.pam_environment
Install the latest Oracle Java via launchpad ppa
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer
This ppa installer will usually do more than what a manual JDK configuration will do.
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Monospaced fonts like 'Inconsolata' and 'Source Code Pro' works best for me.

Answer 3

You do not need to install OpenJDK or the above-mentioned fix .deb for correct font rendering. Simply launch the Studio with:
_JAVA_OPTIONS='-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=lcd -Dsun.java2d.xrender=true' path/to/studio.sh
.. and fonts should render right under Ubuntu with Oracle's JDK 7. Looks even better when you change theme to GTK+ under File -> Settings -> Appearance.

Answer 4

In studio.sh, find this line at the bottom of the file:
eval "$JDK/bin/java" $ALL_JVM_ARGS -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=lcd -Djb.restart.code=88 $MAIN_CLASS_NAME "$#"
and change it to
eval "$JDK/bin/java" $ALL_JVM_ARGS -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on -Djb.restart.code=88 $MAIN_CLASS_NAME "$#"
This means changing the parameter
-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=lcd (if present)
to
-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on
Or simply add this param if you don't have it.

Answer 5

What you should do is configure the fonts in the settings as follows:
File > Settings > Editor > Colors & Fonts > Font
In that screen then you save a new scheme clicking in Save as, and putting a name on it, lets say "Custom".
Then below you'll find all the settings you need, you can tweak the font family and the size as well.

Answer 6

Android Studio 1.2 Preview 1 has been released a few hours ago (Mar 9th 2015):
http://tools.android.com/recent/androidstudio12preview1
It also includes several really important fixes that have been requested by Android Studio users, such as high density (retina) support for Windows and Linux.
It is based on IntelliJ IDEA 14.1, and according to the IntelliJ release notes, includes "The HiDPI support for Windows/Linux (scaled icons/font-size, no blur)".
However, I tried this on my machine (Ubuntu 14.10), and could not see any improvements. Maybe someone else has information on how to make it work?