> The font rendering seems nicer? While I agree that it is better than the font rendering in Windows[1], I suggest that the font rendering is "different", and

> The font rendering seems nicer? While I agree that it is better than the font rendering in Windows[1], I suggest that the font rendering is "different", and opinions will vary considerably about which is better. You may be interested to know that there are patches to the font handling libraries (fontconfig, freetype, cairo) that used to be known as "infinality"[3], but are now maintained by bohoomil[4]. With these patches, you can actually select (with environment variables) various rendering options, including emulation of ClearType and several other rendering styles, including a customizable FIR filter and detailed control of the hinting. Warning: Messing with fontconfig is far more complicated than it looks. Use these patches at your own risk! That said, I do like the results[5]. [1] The modern ClearType rendering, not the pixel-snapping, over-hinted[2] stuff used previously [2] http://www.antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/index.html http://www.antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/index.h... [3] http://www.infinality.net/blog/ http://www.infinality.net/blog/ [4] https://github.com/bohoomil/fontconfig-ultimate https://github.com/bohoomil/fontconfig-ultimate [5] http://i.imgur.com/wMWmNKt.png http://i.imgur.com/wMWmNKt.png