On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 10:26 -0600, Jason D. Clinton wrote: > While I did mention the not-default sub-pixel, in fact, all the fonts > look poorer in contrast to other distributions even when comparing > sub-pixel to sub-pixel. And while font weighting can be quite > subjective as you mention, the font hinting and kerning for the > default desktop UI is just algorithmicly wrong. Look at "About this > Computer" in the System menu. "b" has a giant loop while the adjacent > "o" is 3/4's of b's width. There are, of course, examples all over the > place of these hinting issues. In some cases, vertical lines fail to > weight to an integer position resulting one side or the other having > additional aliasing. Some fonts appear to be affected by this > shortcoming more than others. I can't argue with that as I don't have a default-configuration reference handy, but I'm using stock Fedora freetype - not freeworld - and my fonts don't look like that: http://www.happyassassin.net/extras/fonts.png that's using subpixel smoothing, full hinting, 96dpi resolution (which is actually 'wrong' for my screen, but oh well) and RGB subpixel ordering (varies by monitor, of course). -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
