Re: [Interest] Configuring Qt's built-in freetype ?

2022-02-11 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Fri, 11 Feb 2022, Jean-Michaël Celerier wrote: > Top is grayscale AA, bottom is subpixel. > The lines look so much more definite and contrasted to me, for instance the > 0:00.000 is a blurry mess without sub-pixel AA. The 0:00.000 is much clearer in the top one, darker and a bit blurry in the

Re: [Interest] Configuring Qt's built-in freetype ?

2022-02-11 Thread Jean-Michaël Celerier
Well, I'm curious because to me it absolutely is the opposite. Top is grayscale AA, bottom is subpixel. The lines look so much more definite and contrasted to me, for instance the 0:00.000 is a blurry mess without sub-pixel AA. You really prefer the top one on that screenshot ? [image: huh.png]

Re: [Interest] Configuring Qt's built-in freetype ?

2022-02-11 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Fri, 11 Feb 2022, Jean-Michaël Celerier wrote: > so I'll set the env var to this by default, and will report here if I get > tons of complaints :) First complaint here ;) I’m disabling subpixel antialiasing everywhere (greyscale is fine) because of the colour bleed on the sides, which is

Re: [Interest] Configuring Qt's built-in freetype ?

2022-02-11 Thread Jean-Michaël Celerier
Managed to get to the bottom of the issue: without fontconfig, the freetype backend depends on QPlatformScreen::subpixelAntialiasingTypeHint(), which will return QPlatformScreen::Subpixel_None unless the QT_SUBPIXEL_AA_TYPE env var is set. I've checked a bit and it seems that 99% of current LCD