# Why does the font in my designer and clients look so bad?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/why-does-the-font-in-my-designer-and-clients-look-so-bad/15268>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition79\
**Created:** [September 7, 2017, 4:59am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/why-does-the-font-in-my-designer-and-clients-look-so-bad/15268 "2017-09-07T04:59:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![iamthebull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@iamthebull](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/iamthebull)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 4:59am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/why-does-the-font-in-my-designer-and-clients-look-so-bad/15268/1 "2017-09-07T04:59:16Z")

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I just installed ignition on Ubuntu 16.04.3. The font in the designer and clients looks horrible. Can I change this somehow?

Ignition 7.9.4  
openjdk version “1.8.0\_131”

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 10:27am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/why-does-the-font-in-my-designer-and-clients-look-so-bad/15268/2 "2017-09-07T10:27:25Z")

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This has been discussed before – you need to install and configure better-looking fonts. Try [starting here](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/search?q=linux%20font).