This issue hit me when upgrading from Xubuntu 16.04 to 18.04.1.
Martin's trick above worked to bring rendering back to a pleasant state
(thanks!).
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I just installed the new KDE Neon Bionic version as a VM. The Trick
doesn't work there. The freetype-version is 2.8.1-2ubuntu2 like on the
Kubuntu Host. Maybe the /etc/environment is ignored there. I'm just
researching.
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Thanks Martin,
this did the trick with Ubuntu 18.04 as well.
Cheers,
r.
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Font hinting appears broken on 17.10 beta
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I can report that the solution Martin reported works also for Monospace in
Konsole-sessions.
Because it's much better than downgrading, I removed all the changes I
described in #23 and it works like a charm.
Thanks a lot Martin!
Wolfram
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Hi Martin,
Thanks for the tip! Defining the FREETYPE_PROPERTIES as you suggested
in /etc/environment did indeed disable hinting and renders the same
crisper fonts as was in earlier versions of Ubuntu. Personally, I still
prefer to disable hinting in the source code but your suggestion works
In german ubuntuusers forum there is an simpler solution without need to
downgrade libfreetype.
https://forum.ubuntuusers.de/post/8914328/
Just add
FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="truetype:interpreter-version=35 cff:no-stem-
darkening=1 autofitter:warping=1"
in /etc/environment and restart x-server or
> Its not so much that the font rendering is better or worse but that it
is different than before
Gordon, thanks for your reply.
I think your issue is different than the Qt issue mentioned by many of
the commenters here.
I help maintain Ubuntu's font packages, but I just started with that and
I
Hello jbicha,
I am not running Kubuntu but I am running KDE Plasma 5 and Qt apps on
several OpenSUSE installations. On my Ubuntu installation I am running
Gnome Shell. As an FYI, I maintain a freetype2 repository with subpixel
rendering enabled for OpenSUSE Leap and Tumbleweed. Like most of the
The attachment "Patch to disable #define
TT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_HINTING" seems to be a patch. If it isn't,
please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch"
tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the
team.
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Gordon, according to earlier comments, the Qt part of this bug will be
fixed before 18.04 LTS's release. Are you using Kubuntu or Qt apps?
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Adding the attached patch to the diff file will cause freetype-2.8 to
render fonts exactly like in earlier Ubuntu versions (such as
freetype-2.4.X, 2.5.X and 2.6.X).
** Patch added: "Patch to disable #define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_HINTING"
In the first line of third paragraph of my prior post I meant to say
"(commented out)" instead of "(uncommented)" So, that line should read:
"This needs to be undefined (commented out) in order for freetype-2.7
and 2.8 to render fonts identically to prior versions of Ubuntu freetype
One of the primary differences in freetype-2.8 and prior Ubuntu versions
of freetype is the introduction of TT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_HINTING in
/include/freetype/config/ftoption.h in freetype-2.7.X and later. The
default value is:
#define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_HINTING 2
This needs to be
Then see here the correctly displayed fonts on Gmail (also downloaded
from Gmail's server, no local font).
Works fine and hints correctly.
What gives?
Running last stable firefox (56.0, 57 all messed up, so locked 56 with
apt-lock)
Ubuntu 17.10
** Attachment added: "Screenshot-2017-11-28
Cool,
Fixed as Woko wrote, cheers man.
However, firefox still happens to show _some_ fonts incorrectly -
possibly, bitmap fonts?
Some fonts downloaded from the web (like on Gmail) work fine.
Others don't.
See attached SSots.
** Attachment added: "messed up lack of hinting"
I just created two VMWare-machines to show the difference. One with a
Kubuntu17.10-image, one with a KDE-Neon-image. In Kubuntu I installed
the freetype-PPA to get Version 2.8.1, in KDE-Neon they stick to 2.6.1.
On both I startet a Konsole-Session with Monospace-Font. The Result is
attached.
**
Downgrade libfreetype6 to 2.6.3 as I decribed and it will be fixed.
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In 17.10 (Gnome), when I change the font to 'Ubuntu Mono Regular', as I
always do, and switch to Antialiasing LCD in gnome-tweak-tool and
Hinting to Full, fonts look messy. When I do the same in Ubuntu 16.04
via unity-tweak-tool, fonts are crisp and sharp. Comparison is depicted
in the attachment.
** Also affects: qtbase-opensource-src (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: qt
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: qtbase-opensource-src (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
** Changed in: qtbase-opensource-src (Ubuntu)
Importance:
I had the same Problem. The monospace-font in konsole looked ugly after upgrade
from 17.04.
Same with freetype 2.8.1.
Then I downgraded libfreetype to 2.6.3 as HorstBort mentioned, and konsole
looks nice again.
Here the description how I managed it:
1. add 'deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
In my (humble) opinion the best way to solve this thinking forward, is to
upgrade to freetype 2.8.1, plasma 5.11 and adjust font queries in kdeglobals
and trolltecht.conf without weight specific strings as described in this bug:
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-63792
It's also nice to see
Downgrading to 2.6.3 from zesty (https://packages.ubuntu.com/zesty-
updates/libfreetype6) fixed this *really* annoying issue for me.
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I can confirm this, originally thought it was a Java bug since that is
the only place I've seen the issue -
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-8/+bug/1729257
Major annoyance, I second the request for a backport.
Thanks!
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Then, my advise would be to backport the TT hinting fix to 2.8.0 in
Artful for all those not able to use 2.8.1 from ppa? Bionic is still a
long way to go. Anyway, all is fine for me, so feel free to decide as
you see fit...
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We can't update freetype to 2.8.1 in Ubuntu 17.10 because it will break
Electron apps (LP: #1728329). But Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will likely get
freetype 2.8.1 (or possibly a newer version).
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No, only half of the problem was caused by libfreetype 2.8.0 (normal TT
hinting) but should indeed be updated as soon as possible in Artful, the
other part (bold/italics) is a Qt 5.9.x problem and needs some love from
Qt.
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Yeah, I'm not sure what progress could be made at this point.
The way I see it, the issue was resolved in a new version of libfreetype
(2.8.1). The only thing that is left is to propagate the fix to main Ubuntu
repo.
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In the meantime the problem has been narrowed down to QFont::toString()
appending too much fontstyle information.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=376630
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378523
With Qt being alerted and kde having more issues reported I think
problem reveived more than
You may want to report the problem upstream to make some progress:
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=freetype
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I think I'm looking at a Qt problem, but still relevant for 17.10 as a whole I
guess?
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-63792
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** Also affects: freetype (Ubuntu Artful)
Importance: High
Status: Confirmed
** Changed in: freetype (Ubuntu Artful)
Milestone: None => artful-updates
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I meant to write "fine after upgrade to plasma 5.11".
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Oh, totally missed your comment. That confirms it.
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The title of Konsole definitely doesn't look right, but I'm not sure I
would blame FreeType for that. It could be some KDE or Qt problem.
On my installation, Ubuntu Tweak Tool doesn't allow me to set Window
Font to "Ubuntu Bold 9". It simply switches to "Ubuntu Medium 9" and
makes window titles
It seems a plasma desktop bug, window title renders fine now, but bold
fonts in panel and kmail still render the ugly way.
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I'm using Ubuntu for all Desktop fonts. Attached is a screenshot of the problem.
Title is Ubuntu 9 bold, menu is Ubuntu 9 and terminal is Ubuntu Mono 9.
This is after updating Artful's libfreetype 2.8.0 to 2.8.1 from Michael
Marley's PPA.
** Attachment added: "Screenshot_20171013_191730.png"
That's strange because bold letters of "Courier New" certainly look fine with
freetype 2.8.1.
Do you mind telling me which font you're using?
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freetype 2.8.1 fixes hinting of normal fonts, but not bold.
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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: freetype (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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OK, I've just compiled freetype 2.8.1 from the latest source
https://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.8.1/
and re-pointed the `libfreetype.so.6` link to a newly built .SO-file. I
restarted the system and the hinting started working great. So,
apparently only the 2.8.0 version
** Changed in: freetype (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
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I've just checked 17.04, and it also looks fine. My guess is that
something has changed in "freetype" when it was updated from 2.6.3 to
2.8.0, so I'm setting "freetype" as the package for this bug.
** Package changed: ubuntu => freetype (Ubuntu)
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Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better. It seems that your bug report is not filed about a
specific source package though, rather it is just filed against Ubuntu
in general. It is important that bug reports be filed about source
packages so that people
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