Around 23 o'clock on Nov 13, yao zhang wrote:

>  For those thinner stroke fonts, the anti-aliased text can not reach its
> fullest darkness and appears so light that they are almost
> indistinguishable from the white background.  Now anti-aliased text is not
> good to the eye anymore.

I wonder how much this has to do with our alpha composition working in 
linear value space instead of linear intensity space.  One way to test 
this is to take these same fonts and use them in opposite colors; white 
text on a black background.  If you see them as overly bright in this 
context, then it's not incorrectly computed alpha values, it's the lack of 
monitor gamma correction in the compositing computation.

Another test is to use xgamma (on X servers which support it) and adjust 
the gamma value until the density of white on black text appears the same 
as black on white text.

It may be that we'll want to revisit our simple linear computation in 
favor of adding a gamma correction (table/value) to the extension.

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