> Its not so much that the font rendering is better or worse but that it is different than before
Gordon, thanks for your reply. I think your issue is different than the Qt issue mentioned by many of the commenters here. I help maintain Ubuntu's font packages, but I just started with that and I wasn't involved in the freetype 2.7/2.8 upgrade nor am I familiar with how Ubuntu's font rendering used to work. I encourage you to start a Desktop topic at https://community.ubuntu.com/ for your suggestion. If you could provide before and after screenshots, that would be helpful. We might want to keep a more upstream default font rendering. I don't know, but I am hopeful that your post will help us figure out what to do. By the way, I expect we'll be upgrading to freetype 2.8.1 for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, but I am waiting for the next Electron release first. See LP: #1728329 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1722508 Title: Font hinting appears broken on 17.10 beta To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qt/+bug/1722508/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
