2009/10/29 Tomasz Torcz:
There was a change to font properties which changed "Best
shapes"
to turn on slight hinting.
Good point, but I wonder why this change has been made. It suffices to
look at two attachments to
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=198082
namely
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=351609
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=351613
which demonstrate that medium hinting used to give better results,
namely for MS fonts. However, this holds at least for Luxi Mono, too ,
the traditional Red Hat/Fedora monospaced default font.
To me, even the current system font looks blurred and uneven when
slight hinting is chosen instead of medium one. ~C