Font rendering, 2015

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 11:03:52AM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> Subpixel rendering is still disabled in the Fedora freetype package,
> due to patents that have not expired: 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering#Patents

Ahhh, this is why the fonts don't go all rainbow even if one turns
antialiasing to Rgba in the tweak tool.

> I think we just need to accept that we can't have good font rendering
> until they expire.

Or, we recommend hi-dpi screens where this is a non-issue. :)

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Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader