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As someone totally out of the loop, what’s the status of font rendering in Gnome? The screenshots don’t look any better than 20 years ago, a jarring difference
by manmal 2y ago
As someone totally out of the loop, what’s the status of font rendering in Gnome? The screenshots don’t look any better than 20 years ago, a jarring difference to what I‘m used to from macOS.
- toberoni 2y agoI use Gnome on multiple PCs and my first thought was they use a bitmap font or a 720p screen because everything looks off. The screenshots are not representative of how Gnome's font rendering looks like with a font like Inter & HiDPI.
- wongogue 2y agoIt depends on the distribution.
- 0x_rs 2y agoYou might even find it to have regressed after pango 1.44 released, but human eyesight is not a metric contemplated by its developers.
- Jnr 2y agoLook at the official screenshots, it looks great: https://release.gnome.org/46/ https://release.gnome.org/46/ Font rendering on Linux has been fixed for >10 years but the OP has obviously forgot to update his font configuration or has turned off anti-aliasing and hinting for the legacy look and feel. :)
- bigfatkitten 2y agoIt's distribution dependent. It's been a solved problem for years, but some of the better rendering methods in FreeType are/were patent encumbered, and so it comes down to what each distro's lawyers are comfortable with. Gnome's out of the box font choices don't help either. Cantarell renders terribly on anything but high DPI displays.