[Bug 649616] Re: FFE: Use font='Ubuntu' as default UI font in light-themes

[Tobias Wolf]

Under no circumstance should we change away from slight hinting. That
would be nothing less than disastrous.

Many a flamewar was fought around hinting level in the past and after a
poll of the community run by Keybuk it was changed to slight with an
exception on monospace below 12px for people like mjg59, who
categorically refused to accept antialias in the terminal.

I find it hair raising to hear people call for showing off the TrueType
instructions. Go ahead if you want to show off that we can now match
Win95. TrueType hinting is very much last century tech. I have no idea
how many people will find the bytecode hinting useful, but as a default
it will be disliked by most. That’s obvious.

Considering the majority of target devices and audience, nothing can
beat FreeType autohinter at light setting with default subpixel filter.
I.e., no change, please.

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FFE: Use font='Ubuntu' as default UI font in light-themes
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/649616
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