On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 11:24:29AM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 06.10.2015, 17:34 -0700 schrieb Josh Triplett: > > Correction, it turns out I didn't test 0.0.17 properly. 0.0.17 seems to > > have severe blurring issues as well, with stems smearing across pixels > > in all letters. Screenshot attached; look at the title bars and the > > gnome-shell UI. > > This is probably not even Cantarell's fault. > > Upstream suggests to disable the stem darkening feature in FreeType, at > least as long as it is not properly implemented in the actual rendering > libraries further up the stack (which are expected/required to apply > gamma correction for this feature but currently don't): > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724190#c11 > > So, maybe we should turn this into a wishlist bug for src:freetype?
This amount of blurring doesn't seem like "wishlist". And according to the next comment in that bug, "The font looks the same regardless of the no_stem_darkening boolean value.". I also tried turning autohinting back on with 0.0.17, and it still provides a significant reduction in blurriness, though it doesn't perfectly snap stems to pixels. - Josh Triplett
