https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/text-rendering-general.html https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/text-rendering-gener... > It turns out that font re

https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/text-rendering-general.html https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/text-rendering-gener... > It turns out that font rendering in the Linux ecosystem has been wrong since scalable fonts were introduced to it. Text must be rendered with linear alpha blending and gamma correction, which no toolkit or rendering library does by default on X11, even though Qt5 and Skia (as used by Google Chrome and other browsers) can do it. The primary effect of no gamma correction is that light-on-dark text is too thin (and dark-on-light is thick but readable).