2015-01-26 11:35 GMT+01:00 Henrik Johansen <henrik.s.johansen@veloxit.no>:

> On 25 Jan 2015, at 9:38 , Nicolai Hess <nicolaihess@web.de> wrote:
>
> It looks like this gray-scale vs. colored subpixel antialiasing is an issue on windows.
> I did the same test on linux (Ubuntu 14.04) (screenshot attached).
> But still, the font rendering with the freetype plugin (morphic way) looks better than
> the athens one.
>
> any ideas/help?
>
>
> <world_menu_athens.png><world_menu_morphic.png>

Looks like 2 major differences to me;
- No kerning (custom distance between character pairs, not defined solely by glyph size, o - r pair is pretty obvious)
Not familiar with the athens path, in FreeTypeFonts this is handled image-side.

In athens, there are "hints" you can set. (CairoFontOptions/hintMetricsOff/hintMetricsOn/hintStyleFull ....)
I played a bit with different settings. Changing this settings change the output, but I can not get it to look
like with the freetype plugin. I understand that this can not look equally, because the FreeTypePlugin and caire work differently,
��but the athens result looks bad compared with the other one.

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- Pixel fitting. (The aliasing going on at the top of characters) Put Hinting: None in FreeType advanced features, and you will probably see something similar to the Athens rendering.

Yes, we can change the freetypeplugin setting and cairofontoption setting to make the output look equally - ugly :)
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Cheers,
Henry