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This tip will give you improved font quality and clarity. The improvement in font rendering and quality will be most visible in browser like Firefox.
First you'll have to install following fonts,

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fonts-ttf-dejavu
google-croscore-arimo-fonts
google-croscore-cousine-fonts
google-croscore-symbolneu-fonts
google-croscore-tinos-fonts
google-crosextra-caladea-fonts
google-crosextra-carlito-fonts


Next there is a hidden directory in your $HOME directory called .config. In .config directory you need to create a directory with the name fontconfig
Next create a new empty file in that fontconfig directory with the name fonts.conf
Open that file $HOME/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf in your favourite text editor and paste the following code snippet in it,

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<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
    <match target="font">
        <edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
            <bool>true</bool>
        </edit>
        <edit mode="assign" name="embeddedbitmap">
            <bool>false</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>lcddefault</const>
        </edit>
        <edit mode="assign" name="rgba">
            <const>rgb</const>
        </edit>
    </match>

    <alias>
        <family>serif</family>
        <prefer>
            <family>DejaVu Serif Book</family>
        </prefer>
    </alias>
    <alias>
        <family>sans-serif</family>
        <prefer>
            <family>DejaVu Sans Book</family>
        </prefer>
    </alias>
    <alias>
        <family>sans</family>
        <prefer>
            <family>DejaVu Sans Book</family>
        </prefer>
    </alias>
    <alias>
        <family>monospace</family>
        <prefer>
            <family>DejaVu Sans Mono Book</family>
        </prefer>
    </alias>

    <match>
        <test name="family">
            <string>Arial</string>
        </test>
        <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong">
            <string>Arimo</string>
        </edit>
    </match>
    <match>
        <test name="family">
            <string>Helvetica</string>
        </test>
        <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong">
            <string>Arimo</string>
        </edit>
    </match>
    <match>
        <test name="family">
            <string>Times</string>
        </test>
        <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong">
            <string>Tinos</string>
        </edit>
    </match>
    <match>
        <test name="family">
            <string>Times New Roman</string>
        </test>
        <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong">
            <string>Tinos</string>
        </edit>
    </match>
    <match>
        <test name="family">
            <string>Courier</string>
        </test>
        <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong">
            <string>Cousine</string>
        </edit>
    </match>
    <match>
        <test name="family">
            <string>Courier New</string>
        </test>
        <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong">
            <string>Cousine</string>
        </edit>
    </match>
    <match>
        <test name="family">
            <string>Calibri</string>
        </test>
        <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong">
            <string>Carlito</string>
        </edit>
    </match>
    <match>
        <test name="family">
            <string>Cambria</string>
        </test>
        <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong">
            <string>Caladea</string>
        </edit>
    </match>
</fontconfig>


Save the file.
Open terminal and run this command,

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fc-cache -f


That's it. Enjoy the improved font rendering
Tested on Mageia, several other GNU/Linux distros and NetBSD.