Randall R Schulz
But if you don't like subpixel hinting at its best, that's your prerogative, but I find it vastly superior.
I don’t like it because the colour fringes it creates are very obvious.
I believe the reason for this is that no gamma correction is done.
Test it with
ftview 20 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/DejaVuSans.ttf
Then press F1 for help, switch on subpixel hinting
(you need a freetype2 package with subpixel hinting enabled)
and change the gamma correction to 2.1.
If you compare this with screenshots from Windows, you will find that
the results look very similar to the rendering of Windows “Cleartype” if
the gamma correction is set to 2.1. But if it is left at the default
value of 1.0, the Linux rendering looks much more “colourful”
(disturbing, obviously visible colour fringes) than the Windows
rendering.
As gamma correction is currently only implemented in the test tool
ftview, you cannot use it from other applications like Gnome/KDE/...
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Mike FABIAN