Nick Monkman wrote: > When I choose any smoothing option other than Monochrome, fonts look > great, nice and smooth, except for a few serious problems: With many > fonts, the letters "k" and "x" lose a few too many pixels. Also, > against dark backgrounds (webpages like www.flipcode.com or > www.linuxgames.com) the text can be very hard to read.
Sub-optimal rendering on dark backgrounds is a known problem with freetype. I understand that this could be fixed in a future version of freetype with improved gamma correction. I find that the ttf-bitstream-vera fonts do a great job of reading well against all backgrounds (not surprising, since they were professionally designed and optimized for on-screen viewing with freetype/X11). For my terminals, where I use light-on-dark lettering, I use either Vera Sans Mono or a bitmap font like Adobe Helvetica.
