But if it is correcting the gamma it must assume that my monitor has a certain gamma?
For example, if my uncalibrated monitor has a real gamma of 2.5, Freetype cannot know that. On May 4 2021, at 9:00 am, Allan Sandfeld Jensen <li...@carewolf.com> wrote: > On Dienstag, 4. Mai 2021 01:07:42 CEST Richard L wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Two questions on gamma. > > I have a monitor calibrator. If I hardware calibrate my monitor to a target > > gamma of 2.2 will freetype text look better than a different target gamma > > (say 2.0 or 1.8)? KDE Plasma has a software gamma slider. If I change this > > from the default value of 1.0 is freetype aware of the change, and do > > values /=1 adversely affect the quality of freetype rendering? > > > Freetype doesn't interact with gamma on its own. Qt will only do gamma- > corrected rendering on Linux for CFF (OTF) fonts, in order to preserve > "tradtional" Linux text rendering. > > Best regards > Allan >
