Hi,
I've just updated to Fedora 26 and unfortunately I have to say that I
find the new v40 engine makes many of the fonts I encounter to be
noticeably harder to read. One such example is DejaVu Sans Mono, which
is the default monospace font on Fedora.
I found the documentation for the environment variable to override this,
so the immediate issue is resolved. But thinking long term I'd like to
hear your opinions on tying this in to the load flags.
Before 2.7 the load flags generally meant that NORMAL was hinted in both
directions and LIGHT only vertically. The new code however has no mode
that hints fully. Have you considered tying v35 to NORMAL and v40 to
LIGHT? That would retain previous behaviour better. It would remove the
current behaviour of forcing autohinting with LIGHT, but I'm not sure if
that is needed now that v40 exists.
(The documentation also states that LCD is a variant of LIGHT, but that
doesn't seem to be true in my testing)
Regards
--
Pierre Ossman
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