fontconfig update uglifies fonts

[Russell L. Carter]

On 08/22/16 19:41, Pierre Guinoiseau wrote:
> Hi,
>
> can I suggest replacing Bitstream Vera with DejaVu? Bitstream Vera fonts
> have been unmaintained for more than 12 years and have a lot of hinting
> issues, whereas DejaVu fonts are a very popular and well maintained fork
> of them and have a very nice hinting. It might fix your issue and you
> won't notice the difference.

Ok, thank you for the suggestion.  My how the years fly by.  I now
have DejaVu running in emacs and it's not bad, but not quite as good
as Bitstream Vera.  If it solves the other font issues I can live with
it.  I'm in the middle of bringing up 11/stable and then I have to
rebuild 1000+ ports so I'll start back again on fonts (sigh) if I need
to once that's done.

Best,
Russell

> Cheers,
> Pierre
>
> On 2016-08-22 17:01:33, Russell L. Carter <rcarter at pinyon.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 10/stable amd64, the recent fontconfig update makes the fonts used
>> in thunderbird, firefox, (u)xterm, and emacs quite a bit uglier.  The
>> font strokes seem to be thicker and fuzzier.  Emacs I fixed by
>> reinstalling bitstream-vera, but (u)xterm use that and they're still
>> broken.  I ran fc-cache -f, but no change.  I turned off antialiasing
>> via /usr/local/etc/fonts/local.conf and that made the strokes nice and
>> thin but overall even uglier.
>>
>> Any ideas/pointers on how to fix this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Russell
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