Bug 995643 was filed against freetype for hinting Cantarell very poorly. That was closed as NOTABUG. But that doesn't change the fact that Cantarell is still fuzzy, which is a major issue for a UI font. So let's try filing this bug the other way around. :) Playing around with ftview suggests that forced auto hinting gives back roughly the same hinting as in Fedora 19. So could we have that as a fontconfig bandaid until better hinting information is available in the font itself?
Any updates on this? The problem is still present in the current packages.
This is the workaround I have in place: $ cat /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-cantarell.conf <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "../fonts.dtd"> <fontconfig> <match target="font"> <test name="family"> <string>Cantarell</string> </test> <edit name="autohint" mode="assign"> <bool>true</bool> </edit> </match> </fontconfig>
Still a problem in Fedora 21.
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Duplicate of bug 1035486?
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