I don't want to defend Windows' font rendering, because I hate it too, but (as far as I understand) the core idea behind these changes is good. AGG's article on

I don't want to defend Windows' font rendering, because I hate it too, but (as far as I understand) the core idea behind these changes is good. AGG's article on text rasterization[1] also recommends that renderers ignore horizontal hinting and it has some demo images that look quite good. Also, a lot of fonts are designed for Windows' style of hinting. [1]: http://www.antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/index.html http://www.antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/index.h...