is the secret just stem darkening and otf ubuntu font (good font)?
what else does it do to get that nice text rendering?

>macOS font rendering

>>105879207 (OP)
just use ubuntu?

>>105879224
>>macOS font rendering
Freetards and tinkertrannies still cant get text-on-screen right, literally the core mechanic of any computer. Yet another big loss of the Free Movement

>>105879207 (OP)
what do you mean? this hasn't been an issue for a decade now.. buntu or not.

>>105879207 (OP)
Probably something to do with software patents.

>>105879285
op is not describing an issue

>>105879354
op implies non ubuntu text is not good which is false

>>105879207 (OP)
superior evropean engineering. americans just can't compete

>>105879710
how do i get this on xfce?

>>105879710
Ubuntu uses RGB subpixel rendering with slight hinting, no stem darkening, and no gamma correction. That's pixel for pixel identical to what Windows does. The difference is Ubuntu isn't using extremely fugly knockoffs of knockoffs of fonts from the 1890s.

>>105879250
Don't see you helping, freeloader.

>>105880641
what's the point of stem darkening anyway?

bump

>>105880641
ubuntu uses freetype like everyone else

>Here is the core secret to making fonts render like through DirectWrite/ClearType on Windows: There actually is no subpixel hinting going on here. Shock. The code simply ignores all horizontal hinting instructions. That's less work than supersampling and gets us almost identical results and additionally prevents changes to the advance width of glyphs. This greatly harmonizes the look of older and newer TrueType fonts and incidentally solves glyph spacing problems of less well instructed fonts. Switching to the new mode might take some getting used to though, so if you think your fonts are suddenly fat, fuzzy or weird, give your brain some time to adjust.

>>105882433
from 2016-09-08

>>105882472
Looks nice and smooth desu. What font?

>>105883420
segoe ui actually

>>105879285
On Fedora you either see color bleeding or aliasing. Some letters are blurry no matter what you do.

>>105883460
4K 24" display should fix this

>>105879207 (OP)
I was of the same opinion at first as well. A month since I installed kubuntu and it's not even something I've thought about until I saw this thread.