Font configuration in Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope

This is the font configuration that has worked extremely well for me in my Dell Inspiron laptop:

1. Font size of 9 across the board


2. Entries in ~/.fonts.conf file, based on the recommendations from the following post -
http://www.kilobitspersecond.com/2009/04/17/ubuntu-font-hinting-you-a-cautionary-tale/:

<fontconfig>
  <match target="font">
      <edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
          <bool>true</bool>
      </edit>
      <edit mode="assign" name="hinting">
          <bool>true</bool>
      </edit>
      <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
          <const>hintslight</const>
      </edit>
      <edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter">
          <const>lcdlegacy</const>
      </edit>
      <edit mode="assign" name="rgba">
          <const>none</const>
      </edit>
  </match>
</fontconfig>

3. The fonts within firefox looked extremely tiny at the end of this exercise. This was improved by installing Microsoft Core fonts :

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts gsfonts-x11