FreeType 2.11 Released With New Rendering Module, Smooth Rasterizer Is Faster

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Here are my settings for it:

- Anti-aliasing: RGB
- Hinting: Slight

Using full or medium hinting makes the font rendering look terrible.

It's true for most of the free fonts with poorly implemented hinting (if at all).
With disabled antialiasing and hinting set to full, old Microsoft fonts, like Arial looks perfectly crisp(no smoooth edges) and beatiful, even at low resolution.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/truetype/hinting

It's relatively hard to use Microsoft fonts in current linux distributions (because of Liberation fonts overrides, etc, built -in in fontconfig, but it's doable)

You can search for Windows 98 screenshots. Really pretty TrueType fonts, that looked like proper bitmap fonts, WindowsXP ruined it all with it's subpixel rendering.Apple introduced blurred fonts that tookover all software later :-/