https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062903
Bug ID: 1062903 Summary: cantarell hints very poorly with new freetype CFF engine (i.e. regression) Product: Fedora Version: 20 Component: abattis-cantarell-fonts Assignee: ccecchi@redhat.com Reporter: pierre-bugzilla@ossman.eu QA Contact: extras-qa@fedoraproject.org CC: ccecchi@redhat.com, fonts-bugs@lists.fedoraproject.org
Bug 995643 was filed against freetype for hinting Cantarell very poorly. That was closed as NOTABUG. But that doesn't change the fact that Cantarell is still fuzzy, which is a major issue for a UI font. So let's try filing this bug the other way around. :)
Playing around with ftview suggests that forced auto hinting gives back roughly the same hinting as in Fedora 19. So could we have that as a fontconfig bandaid until better hinting information is available in the font itself?