On 26.11.2016, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I haven't noticed any changes in font rendering. Perhaps this is something > specific to your video hardware.
No, it's definitely not. I have the same phenomenon on (now) three different machines. One has nvidia graphics, one AMD and one Intel Ironlake. On all three, changing the file mentioned in the mail before made the font sharp and crisp again. If you use stock Fedora fonts, it may be that is why you didn't notice the effect. I have always hated blurry fonts, and highly prefer "as sharp and clear as possible". What I'm doing is: 1. Recompiling freetype with subpixel rendering and the bytecode interpreter enabled. 2. Setting antialiasing and hinting to "max" (Applications -> Settings -> Appearance -> Fonts). That sufficed to get the desired "as sharp as possible" effect, until F25. While most of the fonts where as sharp and crisp as before using 1 and 2, some were not, as e.g. in Firefox, Thunderbird and some other programs. Most probably because they obey the systemwide font config. This obviously wasn't the case in previous Fedora releases. As a "sharp and crisp" freak, I can tell that there's a *huge* difference if a font is slightly or fully hinted. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
