On 15 November 2017 at 19:33, Gordon Messmer <gordon.mess...@gmail.com> wrote:
> After upgrading to F27, I noticed that fonts looked "off".  I made a
> screenshot of Thunderbird and gnome-terminal displaying roughly identical
> contents on Fedora 25, 26, and 27.  The older two releases are identical,
> but F27's fonts (both fixed-width and variable-width) appear to be the same
> width as they were previously, but taller.  Characters like monospace 'o'
> used to be round and are now oblong.  Everything seems slightly heavier as a
> result of the additional pixels.  Does anyone know if this change was
> intentional?  Personally, I think it's worse than before.

Most likely it's the new default v40 truetype interpreter; you can
revert to using the old V35 version by exporting an env var:
FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=truetype:interpreter-version=35

c.f.:
https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/subpixel-hinting.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3ADWVN5FVYH2Z5KGW4VXKWVEC2K7DCCK/

-- 
Ahmad Samir
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