I noticed that, my Laptop has no perceptible font-smoothing issues with libfreetype6 version 2.10.1-lp151.4.3.1. Hardware as follows: Graphics: Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Richland [Radeon HD 8650G] vendor: Lenovo driver: radeon v: kernel bus ID: 00:01.0 Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Sun PRO [Radeon HD 8570A/8570M] driver: radeon v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 Device-3: Realtek type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus ID: 3-4:4 Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.3 driver: radeon resolution: 1366x768~60Hz OpenGL: renderer: AMD ARUBA (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.12.14-lp151.28.48-default LLVM 7.0.1) v: 4.3 Mesa 18.3.2 direct render: Yes xdpyinfo delivers the following information: maximum request size: 16777212 bytes motion buffer size: 256 bitmap unit, bit order, padding: 32, LSBFirst, 32 image byte order: LSBFirst number of supported pixmap formats: 7 supported pixmap formats: depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32 depth 4, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32 depth 8, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32 depth 15, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32 depth 16, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32 depth 24, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32 depth 32, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32