fvogt added a comment.
> Hmm, the "After" pictured depicts terrible kerning. Take a look at "Discover" in particular. Is this really the trade-off we're faced with? It feels like there are upstream Qt bugs here. Yup, definitely. Font rendering in QML has some issues. FreeType hinting configuration and especially the used font can make a huge difference though. With "Roboto" for example it looks perfectly fine. REPOSITORY R119 Plasma Desktop REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D17365 To: fvogt, #plasma, broulik Cc: ngraham, broulik, plasma-devel, ragreen, Pitel, ZrenBot, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, abetts, sebas, apol, mart