Then, my advise would be to backport the TT hinting fix to 2.8.0 in Artful for all those not able to use 2.8.1 from ppa? Bionic is still a long way to go. Anyway, all is fine for me, so feel free to decide as you see fit...
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to freetype in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1722508 Title: Font hinting appears broken on 17.10 beta Status in freetype package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in freetype source package in Artful: Confirmed Bug description: It appears that font hinting in 17.10 (beta) doesn't work as expected. The issue is easy to miss if you have antialiasing enabled system- wise. However, if you install "gnome-tweak-tool" and disable antialiasing there, the problem becomes obvious. Here is how it looks on 17.10 beta: https://postimg.org/image/3auqsbkqtn/ And here is how it looks on my 16.04 machine (and this is pretty much how it's supposed to look): https://postimg.org/image/85n5ss3l4b/ * When comparing the pictures make sure you "Open image in new tab" and see them without browser zoom, otherwise the problem may no be obvious. I suspect that this issue is caused by a bug in some base font rendering package that Ubuntu uses (edit: the problem is probably caused by FreeType 2.8.0, see my comments below). A couple of months ago a similar issue was reported (and promptly fixed) in Chromium after they had changed something in FreeType rendering (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=748997). lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu Artful Aardvark (development branch) Release: 17.10 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freetype/+bug/1722508/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
