I'm trying to understand how exactly Pharo renders fonts and aliases them.

I want to use Segoe UI (which is the default Windows 10 font for UI), however when rendered in Pharo it is blurry, and for size 9 and light hinting it actually produces incorrect size.

Here is a comparsion (100%)

and 300%

You can see how blurry and bold the fonts are compared to MS word/Chrome/Firefox. Even Bloc should use the same rendering engine as Firefox, but seems to suffer from the same^1.

(Note that fonts size 7 and 8 is ok... the font starts at size 8.)

I've tried digging through the settings and FreeTypeSettings methods, but couldn't find anything that would help me fix this.

Any pointers appreciated.

Thanks,

Peter

^1 Note for Bloc: I couldn't figure out how to specify the font size in points instead of pixels, so maybe that's why it is much more compact horizontally.