Public bug reported:
It appears that font hinting in 17.10 (beta) doesn't work as expected.
The issue is easy to miss if you have antialiasing enabled system-wise.
However, if you install "gnome-tweak-tool" and disable antialiasing
there, the problem becomes obvious.
Here is how it looks on 17.10
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I've just checked 17.04, and it also looks fine. My guess is that
something has changed in "freetype" when it was updated from 2.6.3 to
2.8.0, so I'm setting "freetype" as the package for this bug.
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OK, I've just compiled freetype 2.8.1 from the latest source
https://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.8.1/
and re-pointed the `libfreetype.so.6` link to a newly built .SO-file. I
restarted the system and the hinting started working great. So,
apparently only the 2.8.0 version o
Yeah, I'm not sure what progress could be made at this point.
The way I see it, the issue was resolved in a new version of libfreetype
(2.8.1). The only thing that is left is to propagate the fix to main Ubuntu
repo.
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That's strange because bold letters of "Courier New" certainly look fine with
freetype 2.8.1.
Do you mind telling me which font you're using?
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Oh, totally missed your comment. That confirms it.
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The title of Konsole definitely doesn't look right, but I'm not sure I
would blame FreeType for that. It could be some KDE or Qt problem.
On my installation, Ubuntu Tweak Tool doesn't allow me to set Window
Font to "Ubuntu Bold 9". It simply switches to "Ubuntu Medium 9" and
makes window titles lo
