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).
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