@mrvanes: You missed one aspect of my observations for the Ubuntu font. * On Ubuntu 22.04 font hinting works to start with. If I upgrade to the fonts-ubuntu 0.863-0ubuntu3 package there, the rendering happens irrespective of the font hinting value.
* On Ubuntu 23.04 font hinting is broken to start with. If I downgrade to the fonts-ubuntu 0.83-6ubuntu1 package there, the rendering honors the font hinting value. So the regression, at least for this particular font, seems to be unrelated to other packages. @Dmitriy: The above indicates that the upgrade of fontconfig is not part of the picture. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Documentation Packages, which is subscribed to fonts-ubuntu in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2017573 Title: Font hinting broken on Plasma 23.04 Status in fonts-ubuntu package in Ubuntu: New Status in plasma-desktop package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Just upgraded my laptops to Kubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster and hinting for all non-commercial fonts seems broken. I used to have decent if not perfect hinting on Ubuntu and Ubuntu Mono font, but now the only fonts that still hint correctly are Microsoft's Verdana and Tahoma etc. Not sure whether the devide is exactly along this line, but it stands out. Tried regenerating font cache (fc-cache -rv) but that didn't help. Operating System: Kubuntu 23.04 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.104.0 Qt Version: 5.15.8 Kernel Version: 6.3.0 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-10510U CPU @ 1.80GHz Memory: 31.1 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics Manufacturer: Notebook Product Name: N141CU System Version: Not Applicable To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fonts-ubuntu/+bug/2017573/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~documentation-packages Post to : documentation-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~documentation-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp