On July 22, 2003 19:24, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
Has anyone noticed the fonts look a bit weird with Severn?
The "sans" font looks skinnier than with RHL9 and when I turn on the
bytecode interpreter, it gets even worse. The lowercase "g", for
example, in gnome-terminal is really ugly compared to RHL9.
Are you sure the font file are exactly the same? It looks like the Severn
version has some preliminary hinting for some letters.
If they are exactly the same, then it's freetype's fault. It may be trying to
improvise some sort of hinting. The freetype people are developing ways
around having a bytecode interpreter, which may or may not produce good
results.
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