From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: antialiasing makes little font unreadable. you should add some option to enable antialiasing only for bigger fonts (this is how works windows, and it is the optimal choice, imho) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. n/a 2. 3. Additional info:
On the other hand, Mac OS X always antialiases. It, to some extent is a matter of preference. But in our case, rendering nice looking antialiased fonts with free software is a whole lot easier than rendering nice looking non-antialiased fonts, so there is a strong inclination to antialiasing. If you try turning off antialiasing in the GNOME font properties dialog, I don't think you'll be happy with the result, even at small point sizes.