On 2018-08-22 17:20:56, Antoine Beaupre wrote:
> I have yet to read the upstream article about the v40 rendering. Maybe
> it's just me being picky and too conservative. Maybe I'm just reacting
> badly to a change that is good. But to my eyes, the new font rendering
> is much blurrier than it should be, and I don't see what can justify
> this.
I have reviewed the article in question, and I'm not convinced. It looks
like this was done to work with newer ClearType fonts from Microsoft,
but it doesn't look as good on Liberation. In the article, the examples
given are the Consolas and Georgia fonts, two proprietary fonts from
Microsoft which are not even available for download (let alone
distribution). And sure, in those screenshots the display actually looks
better. But install the freetype-demos package (which I found out from
that article, great!) and try this:
FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="truetype:interpreter-version=35" ftview 16
./truetype/liberation/LiberationMono-Regular.ttf &
FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="truetype:interpreter-version=40" ftview 16
./truetype/liberation/LiberationMono-Regular.ttf &
Spoilers: I really think the original renderer does a better job. The
whole argument behind the article is that the original rendering is
"pixely", but the new rendering is pixely as well! It's just more
blurry.
So I am really not convinced this is an improvement, and I think a bug
should be filed upstream on this.
A.
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