[Bug 1722508] [NEW] Font hinting appears broken on 17.10 beta

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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

** Affects: freetype (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
         Status: Confirmed

** Affects: freetype (Ubuntu Artful)
     Importance: High
         Status: Confirmed


** Tags: artful bot-comment
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Font hinting appears broken on 17.10 beta
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1722508
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