I am bit puzzled.
The screen shot looks perfectly normal to me.
Am I missing something?
Sounds great! It's funny. I logged into the forum on my Samsung S9+ and when I look at my own uploaded and mangled screenshot hoping to show you the fonts it looks perfectly sharp on my phone. ?
Hmm... So the view is blurred on the monitor but the screen shot comes out clear. Mysterious.
@Aravisian, have you ever experienced such phenomenon?
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Well, I started with the most simple idea first... the obvious... I went and cleaned my glasses with soap and water! Lol, The fonts still look terrible for some reason.
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Your fonts are set to default.
You could change them any other fonts to your liking.
Just click on the each font you wish to change. There will be a list of available fonts.
Can you take a picture, like with a Camera phone - of your screen? It won't be perfect but...
I am wondering: Monitor or Cable to Monitor, at the moment.
That's exactly what I was trying to do, but my file is too big. Working on that now.
A part of the mystery was solved:
I will try to remember suggesting a soap and water next time 
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I crop mine with an image editor when that happens... You don't need the whole screen, just a clear section that shows what you need to show.
Or use Nomacs (available at Software) to reduce image size. It is much simpler than GIMP.
It's almost like part of the letters almost disappear or squeeze into the other letters. When I switch over to Windows 10 it's perfect, so I'm puzzled.
Much as I would like to help you, it is 1 AM where I live.
I am afraid I cannot continue.
I hope @Aravisian could find a solution for you.
Holy smokes! It's late! Well thanks for trying, I really appreciate it!
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What screen resolution are you using?
What frequency?
Is this a notebook or PC?
What Graphics card are you using?
EDIT: Habit... sorry... AMD Radeon RX560 - got it lol
It's an AMD Radeon RX 560, the default it came up as is 1920x1080, 74.97hz, scale is at 100%. This is a desktop computer with a 22" LG monitor. I do graphics designing so it's a pretty decent system.
Hey, I just changed the resolution to 1680x1050 and it's much clearer!
What is the terminal output of:
xrandr --verbose | grep "TearFree"
I get this...
desktop@desktop-X470-AORUS-GAMING-5-WIFI:~$ xrandr --verbose | grep "TearFree"
TearFree: auto
TearFree: auto
TearFree: auto
Ok... You might try a different refresh rate- 60hz maybe (59) or you may try changing the tearfree option with AMD GPU to "on"
You can open a file manager with sudo -i and then nautilus in terminal.
Then... Actually... Let me find you a guide.
Here:
Essentially, you are just creating a new config .conf file in /etc/x11 with the following content:
Section "Device"
Identifier "AMD Graphics"
Driver "amdgpu"
Option "TearFree" "true"
EndSection
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Ok, cool! Hey, thank you so much! I have to run, but I'll work on your suggestions a bit later!
Appreciate it!
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