On 15 November 2017 at 19:33, Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > After upgrading to F27, I noticed that fonts looked "off". I made a > screenshot of Thunderbird and gnome-terminal displaying roughly identical > contents on Fedora 25, 26, and 27. The older two releases are identical, > but F27's fonts (both fixed-width and variable-width) appear to be the same > width as they were previously, but taller. Characters like monospace 'o' > used to be round and are now oblong. Everything seems slightly heavier as a > result of the additional pixels. Does anyone know if this change was > intentional? Personally, I think it's worse than before. Most likely it's the new default v40 truetype interpreter; you can revert to using the old V35 version by exporting an env var: FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=truetype:interpreter-version=35 c.f.: https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/subpixel-hinting.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/3ADWVN5FVYH2Z5KGW4VXKWVEC2K7DCCK/ -- Ahmad Samir _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
