Font/text rendering is irregular and not pixel-aligned

[Daniel van Vugt]

Logging in to Unity8 desktop I find text rendering is irregular and not pixel-aligned. Particularly noticeable in the notification bar pull-down on the top right.

Actually full pixel alignment is not necessarily a requirement, but nice to have. Even without that this bug is significant because small glyphs are aliasing with the pixels; sometimes one pixel wide but sometimes less (so shown dimmer).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: unity8 8.11+16.04.20160122-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.3.0-7.18-generic 4.3.3
Uname: Linux 4.3.0-7-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.19.4-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jan 28 18:40:17 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-12-03 (56 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20151202)
SourcePackage: unity8
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
upstart.unity8-dash.log: Attempted to deliver an event to a non-existent window, ignoring.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

I think you will see this bug on displays where the DPI and stars align such that the glyph strokes are about 1px wide (e.g. my 24" 1920x1200). This might be related to bug 1510382 actually...

[Andrea Bernabei (faenil)]

closing as duplicate, please reopen if you think it's not :)