Friday, November 16, 2018

Color fringing with fonts in Fedora 29

So Microsoft joined the OIN, which has had knockdown effects on the Linux community, including using FreeType's ClearType subpixel font rendering by default in Fedora. For some reason, they chose not to enable any kind of LCD filter at the same time, which can lead to rainbow color fringing around text. Fortunately enabling an LCD filter in FreeType is easy:

$ ln -s /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/11-lcdfilter-default.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/

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