On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 02:39:49PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
Well, it's really a matter of taste. For example, I prefer hintfull even in your examples since hintslight looks too blur.
There are fonts that don't suit with hintfull, indeed. But it's a different question whether to switch to the default for all.
Here is an counterexample of my previous examples (again left hintfull and right hintslight). I would stay with hintfull default at least for 12.1. Then we could elaborate which fonts are rendered "better" with which hintingstyle and make default conditional. I mean set hinting style to hintslight when particular font family is used. For example, <match target="font"> <test name="family"> <string>Nimbus Sans L</string> </test> <edit name="hintstyle"> <const>hintslight</const> </edit> </match> causes the small font in the search input on opensuse.org render "better" for me. What do you think? Petr