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digitalone

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Registered: 2011-08-19

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[SOLVED] font rendering enabling antialiasing and RGB subpixel hinting

Font rendering on Arch Linux is not so smooth, so I read all fontconfig page on archwiki and after enabling antialiasing, RGB subpixel rendering and full hinting (symlinking the needed files from /etc/fonts/conf.avail to /etc//fonts/conf.d), that's what I got:

It is quite smooth, but character spacing is completely broken. Look, too much space between 'p' and 'o', 'l' not in the center between 'o' and 'u', too much space between 'i' and 't'. With other hinting styles the result is equal, but less smooth, so worse. Without hinting, the spacing is correct, but the characters are not smooth.

Edit: managed to solve that issue changing interpreter to v40 in /etc/profile.d/freetype2.sh.

Last edited by digitalone (2018-11-21 16:27:10)