Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 12:56:53 +0200 From: Raphael Kubo da Costa <rakuco@FreeBSD.org> To: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@pinyon.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fontconfig update uglifies fonts Message-ID: <8660qmh43u.fsf@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <729af4af-0ed3-4d45-2e68-b4483e08110a@pinyon.org> (Russell L. Carter's message of "Mon, 22 Aug 2016 17:01:33 -0700") References: <729af4af-0ed3-4d45-2e68-b4483e08110a@pinyon.org>
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"Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@pinyon.org> writes: > Hi, > > On 10/stable amd64, the recent fontconfig update makes the fonts used > in thunderbird, firefox, (u)xterm, and emacs quite a bit uglier. The > font strokes seem to be thicker and fuzzier. Emacs I fixed by > reinstalling bitstream-vera, but (u)xterm use that and they're still > broken. I ran fc-cache -f, but no change. I turned off antialiasing > via /usr/local/etc/fonts/local.conf and that made the strokes nice and > thin but overall even uglier. > > Any ideas/pointers on how to fix this? This is likely caused by the fact that the new fontconfig version allows one to choose the default hinting style and defaults to "slight"; from your description it looks like were used to a different value. You can either change the HINTING option when building the port or create a ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf with something like this: <?xml version='1.0'?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'> <fontconfig> <match target="font"> <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"> <const>hintnone</const> </edit> </match> </fontconfig>
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