I don't know much about font rendering. Maybe one of autohint or AA is missing. Configuration might be not applied.
I'm sorry that I have no clue. -- Fonts became ugly after upgrading to fontconfig 2.4.1. https://launchpad.net/bugs/73719 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs