> What do you mean by "washed out"? _What's_ "washed out"? Regardless > of what curve your grey-levels use, white should be white, and black > should be black, and fonts are mostly black and white....
Hi, I'm sorry I was not clear to express the problem. By washed out I meant that, like in image http://imagebin.org/222768 the text is too much clear. To make an objective comparison I have compared the same text rendered with google chrome on ubuntu and gsl shell. The image is here: http://imagebin.org/222920 The text rendered with chrome is clearly more dark, more crisp, while with my rendering pipeline the text is quite clear. This is probably normal with antialising and gamma correction since the pixel does not have a 100% coverage but the final results, even if correct, does look too much clear, washed out as I was saying before. I guess that google chrome does use libxft on linux to render text so probably it is a the level of libxft that the rendering pipeline is defined. I'm wondering if they are using gamma correction or not, if it is the hinting that make the difference or if they use other special methods to increase font crispness. Francesco _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel