Re: Better fonts by default?

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On Sun, 2018-11-11 at 17:23 +0000, Tom Hughes wrote:
> On 11/11/2018 17:16, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2018-11-09 at 20:36 -0600, Martin Jackson wrote:
> > > Hello everyone, and thanks to one and all for a remarkable distribution!
> > > 
> > > With the coverage of the freeworld fontconfig enhancements, I wonder if
> > > some of the configuration settings currently implemented in
> > > https://github.com/silenc3r/fedora-better-fonts will be considered as
> > > defaults?
> > 
> > BTW, slightly off topic, but since we're talking about fonts -
> > something went really weird for me in Rawhide subpixel stuff lately. I
> > have my displays rotated 90 degrees, so I have vRGB set as the subpixel
> > ordering, but since some recent update, it seems like it's not working
> > properly, as I can see obvious colors in text that shouldn't be
> > colored, especially things like underscores (which basically just look
> > straight-up green).
> 
> That's interesting because I'm seeing the same thing in F29 but with
> vertical edges on a non-rotated display!

Aha, so maybe it's just...generally...broken :P

> I assumed it was related to subpixel antialiasing being enabled but
> turning that off doesn't seem to help.

It seemed to change things a bit for me. Note that the changes don't
always take effect immediately in all apps, I don't think - you may
have to quit and restart, or at least cause the contents of the app
window to change somehow.

> I'd say it looks more blueish than green, and it only seems to happen
> at certain sizes.

For me it depends on the character and yeah, the colors can vary. Green
underscores is just the most really obvious one.
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