https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1545149
--- Comment #16 from Nikolaus Waxweiler <madigens(a)gmail.com> ---
It is possible that this is a bug in FreeType, you may want to send a mail
there (
https://www.freetype.org/contact.html) and point to this bug report.
On the subject of "removing the ability to get sharp stems": I can see your
point, but sub-par autohinting can impair reading just as well by making text
look very uneven. There is unfortunately no silver bullet here. Actually, there
is no way for a user to tell a font how she'd like the rendering to be. Neither
TTF nor OTF hinting have the notion of user adjustability (OTF maybe more so
than TTF, but nothing of that is implemented in FreeType), what you see as an
options in FreeType/fontconfig are misnamed switches and the choice you get is
largely incidental. The thing to keep in mind is that there is a lot of
familiarization baked into font rendering discussions, i.e. if you surround
yourself with mscorewebfonts and DejaVu and crank hinting to full, the
rendering in the shot above will stick out like a sore thumb -- and vice versa.
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