https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1513579
Bug ID: 1513579
Summary: Fonts inside Console Applications look much smaller
and worse compared to F26
Product: Fedora
Version: 27
Component: freetype
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Description of problem:
I know that this is a subjective bug. But I want to bring it up nonetheless.
In Fedora 26 I spent a lot of time adjusting my fonts. I ended up with, what I
thought, very nice looking fonts in my GUI console apps (Terminator is my
choice, but I could do it in gnome-terminal, konsole, etc...) I spend about
80% of my day inside of these apps, so this is kinda important to me.
I have applied the hinting as suggested all over. I was really happy. I am
using freetype-freeworld, and I am using these settings:
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$ xrdb -query | grep Xft
Xft.antialias: 1
Xft.dpi: 96
Xft.hinting: 1
Xft.hintstyle: hintslight
Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault
Xft.rgba: rgb
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I did the system upgrade from F26 -> F27. The fonts inside of my console apps
are now uglier. They feel smaller, and more squished together, blockier.
I have read a lot, and apparently freetype has changed the default renderer in
2.7. It also seems a new default is coming in 2.8.1, but that doesn't seem to
have landed in Fedora yet. It's now using a v40 as opposed to v35. This
changed seemed to happen last year, so I'm not sure if F26 had v35 or v40.
This is talked about here.
https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/subpixel-hinting.html
It also has a suggestion of reverting to the "old" style of 35, by adding this
to your profile:
"FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=truetype:interpreter-version=35"
I have tried this, but it didn't seem to do anything different.
I am looking for suggestions on how to make this look better. I feel the fonts
regressed.
Again, I understand this is subjective, and maybe after a few weeks I will just
get used to it, but I wanted to bring it up. In IRC they suggested I file a
bug, so here it is.
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