<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.16.0"> </HEAD> <BODY> For those of us who don't use hinting, like on Mac OS X, this text appearance is a massive win. Just to let you know. On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 05:27 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> I've reverted the changes that Scott made to Freetype, Xft and Cairo. This functionality is intended to improve rendering on LCD screens, but it's clearly failing to do so at the moment - vertical lines were being rendered across sub-pixel boundaries, resulting in increased colour blurring and reduced legibility. As an example, see <A HREF="http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/tmp/blur.png">http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/tmp/blur.png</A> - prior to the change, the vertical lines were solid white without any sub-pixel colouring. However, the rendering quality in some other situations did seem to improve slightly. I'm uncomfortable with introducing this change this close to beta without a full discussion of the pros and cons of the change, and ideally I suspect we ought to defer it to post-UDS where we can get more feedback from experts in this field. Thoughts? -- Matthew Garrett | <A HREF="mailto:mjg59@srcf.ucam.org">mjg59@srcf.ucam.org</A> </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>