GTK 4.14 To Provide Crisper Font Rendering, Better Fractional Scaling

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GTK 4.14 To Provide Crisper Font Rendering, Better Fractional Scaling

The upcoming GTK 4.14 toolkit release with the new renderers should yield crisper font rendering...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK-4.14-Crisper-Font-Rendering

[Danny3]

Hopefully Firefox developers will have a look at this as I don't find the fonts in Firefox crisp!

[You-]

Hopefully Firefox developers will have a look at this as I don't find the fonts in Firefox crisp!

They wont. They have their own stack - only a few things use GTK, none of the web rendering.

[skeevy420]

I alternated between the two sample images and I think the new way does look noticeably better...sharper and less blurry.

Michael

notes he moved fron the "large text"

[hf_139]

Sharpness is not a metric.

There is no usecase for crisp fonts.

t. Emmanuele Bassi

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/3787

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[You-]

Sharpness is not a metric.

There is no usecase for crisp fonts.

I know you were taking the piss, but do you know what hinting (and anti-aliasing) is?

[hf_139]

I know you were taking the piss, but do you know what hinting (and anti-aliasing) is?

Please don't leave comments if you have nothing to say

[You-]

Please don't leave comments if you have nothing to say

Oh I had something to say and I said it. (and yes, I get the reference. More childish trolling. Forums are for random comments, not issue queues which are for identifying and working towards solutions.)

My only mistake was not realise who I was responding to. It would have been more fruitful to bang my head against a brick wall.

[skeevy420]

Using a very technical reading of their own rules, hf_139 can no longer leave comments since that user literally has "n*th*ng t* s*y" and is the only one here in possession of that text. I made sure to use the censored version as to not censor myself from future posts

[ireri]

I know you were taking the piss, but do you know what hinting (and anti-aliasing) is?

I know you were taking the piss, too.