F20 has blurry font rendering

[Michael Cronenworth]

Tim wrote:
> This looks like different fonts, or same font with different weights
> (bold vs normal).  Could be application-specific, or user-wide
> preferences.

You're looking at the same font, same font-size, same font-weight. :)

> They look almost the same, but perhaps with different aliasing
> (smoothing of edges).  Have you gone through the rendering preferences
> for screen fonts?  I seem to recall that the default settings seem to
> have changed over the years.

I use the Fedora defaults on my machines. I do not have any custom anti-alias 
settings or hinting tweaks.

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Your e-mail made me investigate again. Font rendering changes in freetype.

freetype 2.4.11 (F19): http://i.imgur.com/TiAaFzX.png
freetype 2.5.0  (F20): http://i.imgur.com/vyCUUUX.png

Both images are from a F20 box.