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Re:Text Rendering Hates You by enqk on Sunday September 29, 2019 @05:18AM (#21106025)
I believe it's somewhat unavoidable as the fonts may also have co-evolved to work with renderers that work that way
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Re:Text Rendering Hates You by ahartmetz on Sunday September 29, 2019 @06:44AM (#21106285)
Yes - fonts looked too thin and rather ugly when the color space "bug" was fixed in early Qt 5 (on Linux / more precisely, with FreeType glyph rendering) versions. The fix was reverted to fix the look of text.
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Re:Text Rendering Hates You by leni536 on Sunday September 29, 2019 @05:33AM (#21106068)
Sure, that's what stem-thickening is meant to compensate in the cited article.
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