[Bug 1722508] Re: Font hinting appears broken on 17.10 beta

[Denis Kalinin]

The title of Konsole definitely doesn't look right, but I'm not sure I
would blame FreeType for that. It could be some KDE or Qt problem.

On my installation, Ubuntu Tweak Tool doesn't allow me to set Window
Font to "Ubuntu Bold 9". It simply switches to "Ubuntu Medium 9" and
makes window titles look regular, not bold. However, when I increase the
font size, it does make the title appear bold and it looks perfectly
fine to me (attaching the screenshot).

I also updated to Michael's PPA and tried installing Konsole - the fonts
still look OK.

** Attachment added: "Bold titles"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freetype/+bug/1722508/+attachment/4970305/+files/comparison-bold.png

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Title:
  Font hinting appears broken on 17.10 beta

Status in freetype package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  It appears that font hinting in 17.10 (beta) doesn't work as expected.
  The issue is easy to miss if you have antialiasing enabled system-
  wise. However, if you install "gnome-tweak-tool" and disable
  antialiasing there, the problem becomes obvious.

  Here is how it looks on 17.10 beta:
  https://postimg.org/image/3auqsbkqtn/

  And here is how it looks on my 16.04 machine (and this is pretty much how it's supposed to look):
  https://postimg.org/image/85n5ss3l4b/

  * When comparing the pictures make sure you "Open image in new tab"
  and see them without browser zoom, otherwise the problem may no be
  obvious.

  I suspect that this issue is caused by a bug in some base font
  rendering package that Ubuntu uses (edit: the problem is probably
  caused by FreeType 2.8.0, see my comments below). A couple of months
  ago a similar issue was reported (and promptly fixed) in Chromium
  after they had changed something in FreeType rendering
  (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=748997).

  lsb_release -rd
  Description: Ubuntu Artful Aardvark (development branch)
  Release:     17.10

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