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Fix pixelated Monaco Font (Google Chrome, Firefox...) on Linux

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TL;DR: solution is to disable embedded bitmaps, either for all fonts or Monaco font

Create a file named 20-no-embedded.conf in ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/
To disable this behavior with all fonts, add this in your file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
 <match target="font">
   <edit name="embeddedbitmap" mode="assign">
     <bool>false</bool>
   </edit>
 </match>
</fontconfig>

For Monaco font only, add this instead:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
    <match target="font">
        <test qual="any" name="family">
           <string>Monaco</string>
        </test>
        <edit name="embeddedbitmap">
            <bool>false</bool>
        </edit>
    </match>
</fontconfig>

Restart your system and this should now be fixed

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