On Dienstag, 4. Mai 2021 01:07:42 CEST Richard L wrote: > Hi, > > Two questions on gamma. > I have a monitor calibrator. If I hardware calibrate my monitor to a target > gamma of 2.2 will freetype text look better than a different target gamma > (say 2.0 or 1.8)? KDE Plasma has a software gamma slider. If I change this > from the default value of 1.0 is freetype aware of the change, and do > values /=1 adversely affect the quality of freetype rendering? > Freetype doesn't interact with gamma on its own. Qt will only do gamma- corrected rendering on Linux for CFF (OTF) fonts, in order to preserve "tradtional" Linux text rendering.
Best regards Allan