I had a quick look at fedora-better-fonts and found this: 1. The defaults in https://github.com/silenc3r/fedora-better-fonts/blob/master/fontconfig-enhanced-defaults/19-enhanced-defaults.conf are redundant. Turning off the autohinter and selecting hintslight... will turn it back on :D The LCD filter and subpixel order can be selected by existing conf files inf fontconfig's conf.avail folder already. 2. The rest seems to be mostly boilerplate font replacements? Standard stuff like Arial is already covered by fontconfig/Fedora defaults, other replacements like Arial Black are not really replacements, but wholesale changes. A replacement for a font family should be a metrically compatible drop-in, as e.g. PDF viewers will use the same information (not all PDF generators embed fonts when they should...). If the replacement works for your use-case, good, but I would be uncomfortable aliasing Consolas to Fira Mono distro-wide. > For example, the gschema changes should go to the gnome-settings-daemon project, where it is probably going to run up against the fact that (I believe) Nikolaus prefers grayscale hinting. What? 😁 Do note that I never touched GNOME settings, the grayscale default comes from the time where subpixel rendering was guarded by ClearType patents. All I remember saying is that subpixel rendering is not essential to getting nicely rendered fonts, as you can see in Qt5: https://i.postimg.cc/t4XnfGzt/Bildschirmfoto-vom-2018-11-11-11-45-41.png https://i.postimg.cc/c4GnRngz/Bildschirmfoto-vom-2018-11-11-11-46-28.png Download the original PNGs and compare 😊 subpixel rendering (here with the light LCD filter) can improve contrast a bit, but grayscale looks pretty good, too. Provided you like the overall smooth look of light hinting. > Unfortunately, a lot of text on the web renders really poorly without rgba subpixel rendering (aka ClearType). It's a lot less noticeable if you're lucky enough to have a 4K display (which I do not). But having text look squishy and spaced incorrectly does not make for enjoyable reading... Subpixel rendering shouldn't modify squishiness or spacing, just add some color to boring text. Can you send some screenshots my way? > Can the sub pixel renderer actually know the actual subpixels on the screen or is some pattern just assumed? No, you have to tell FreeType what to render. By default it assumes RGB subpixels, but you can change that in fontconfig to BGR or their vertical cousins. > That’s a gross over simplification “render fonts like windows” has long been impossible for legal reasons, but “render fonts like windows” has never been an universal standard the majority of our users subscribe to. It's also technically (mostly) impossible because Windows and macOS do correct font rendering (linear alpha blending and gamma correction to various degrees) which on X11/Wayland currently only Qt5 does (see screenshots above). Nothing you can do anywhere else in stack weights that up. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
