[Bug 1227614] New: Font rendering is poor in Fedora 22

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1227614

Bug ID: 1227614
           Summary: Font rendering is poor in Fedora 22
           Product: Fedora
           Version: 22
         Component: freetype
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
        QA Contact: [e-mail]
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Created attachment 1034149
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Description of problem:
Font rendering on Fedora 21 KDE worked fine. But in Fedora 22 which uses
freetype-2.5.5-1.fc22.x86_64 it is way too grainier. I use slight hint which
doesn't seem to be applied at all. RPMFusion which uses F21's
freetype-freeworld-2.3.11 works fine. So something must have gone wrong in the
update.

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[Bug 1227614] Font rendering is poor in Fedora 22

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--- Comment #1 from Sudhir Khanger  ---
Created attachment 1059356
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poor font rendering in firefox

Fonts are specially broken in GTK apps.

[Bug 1227614] Font rendering is poor in Fedora 22

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1227614

--- Comment #2 from Marek Kašík  ---
There is a new hinting engine in freetype since 2.4.12. It was turned by
default in 2.5.0. I can not change it.

(In reply to Sudhir Khanger from comment #1)
> Fonts are specially broken in GTK apps.

This looks like a problem of the specific font. If you could find which font is
shown on the screen it would help us and we could file a bug against the
specific font.

[Bug 1227614] Font rendering is poor in Fedora 22

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1227614

Sudhir Khanger  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |CLOSED
         Resolution|---                         |WORKSFORME
        Last Closed|                            |2016-01-05 13:27:31

--- Comment #3 from Sudhir Khanger  ---
It's been so long I won't be able to provide any info. Thanks for commenting.