Hello Sebastian!
> My issue is that the recent update of the freetype2 package to
> version 2.8 has noticeably changed the way my fonts look.
So it seems that `Arch' is another distribution that used FreeType
< 2.8 unmodified...
> Vaguely it all appears less crisp than before, but what is most
> disturbing is that in Droid Sans Regular 10 there is now a striking
> imbalance between the non-bold and bold version. [...]
There's nothing I can do. The auto-hinter previously used slightly
different scaling values – which it shouldn't have done so, and which
is fixed now. To be more precise, the auto-hinter used an integer
ppem value instead of the unrounded one. In your case 10pt at 96dpi
corresponds to 13.3333ppem. What you need is 13ppem.
> I did try changing the font size and have noticed that only size 10
> shows this strong difference. [...]
You didn't try hard enough. Since
13ppem * 72dpi / 96dpi = 9.75pt
you should try 9.75pt.
Werner
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