https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1470509
--- Comment #5 from Peter Bieringer pb@bieringer.de --- Hi, thank you for all the details.
I hope freetype team had a very valid reason why they changed the default behavior - imho this can cause a bunch of unhappy users.
The only good thing is that old behavior can be permanently enabled by e.g.
cat <<END >/etc/profile.d/LOCAL-freetype.sh FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="truetype:interpreter-version=35" export FREETYPE_PROPERTIES END
until the old interpreter version disappears in code...but perhaps until then the next improved "default" appears.
Or you can have a look whether a newer set of fonts would suit you better with the default hinting engine
Are there any suggestions already around which "newer set of font" is more compatible to new hinting engine...or has community wait now until first "compatible font" appears...
I've tested mostly all previously on fc25 installed and therefore on fc26 updated fonts, all look ugly.
I personally not a fan of all the antialiasing stuff (for normal desktop displays)...it reminds me to old CRT times and implicit unsharp fonts before LCD (with sharp fonts) become common use - looks like times are rolling back.