After looking on the Freetype mailing list it looks like this is a known problem with rendering Verdana bold in anti-aliased mode:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freetype/2006-11/msg00011.html In particular in this post one of the Freetype authors says certain sizes of Verdana bold cannot be rendered properly in anti-aliased mode: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freetype/2006-11/msg00042.html It's damn annoying Linux still has these basic problems rendering the Microsoft fonts which are used so extensively on the web. As a work around I've added this rule to my .fonts.conf file in my home directory which (I think) disables anti-aliasing for bold Verdana at some font sizes: <!-- Disable antialiasing for Verdana Bold at some font sizes--> <match target="font" > <test compare="more" name="weight" > <const>medium</const> </test> <test name="family" qual="any" > <string>Verdana</string> </test> <!-- check font size --> <test compare="more_eq" name="pixelsize" qual="any" > <double>11</double> </test> <test compare="less_eq" name="pixelsize" qual="any" > <double>18</double> </test> <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" > <bool>false</bool> </edit> </match> -- Verdana Bold rendering problems https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/109734 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
