https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1437999
--- Comment #66 from Marek Kašík mkasik@redhat.com --- Hi,
since I want to keep freetype in Fedora on the default version as much as possible, I did not activated the AF_CONFIG_OPTION_TT_SIZE_METRICS option in 2.8. So fonts in rawhide will look like the ones from 2.7.1-3 update.
I also tried to look at whether I could backport this option (or its part) to fix the state after application of the commit mentioned in the description of this bug to F24, F25 and F26. But it is a lot of code so there is high chance of introducing of a regression and hence I won't backport this and leave it this way.
Regarding the Chromium case, it seems that people around Chromium are discussing about bundling of their own freetype which could solve the issue even in F24, F25 and F26 depending on whether and when they will do that (https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/chromium-p...).