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  1. Bug #1722508
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Denis Kalinin (denisftw) wrote : Font hinting appears broken on 17.10 beta

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. 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