Re: Is font rendering sharper under Wayland?

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 23:22:38 +0100, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:

> On Donnerstag, 31. Dezember 2020 05:23:53 CET Lawrence D'Oliveiro
> wrote:
>
>> That sharpness comes at the expense of distortion. Hinting is all
>> about hacking the shapes of glyphs to fit the pixel grid -- for
>> example, getting rid of subtle curves and slants. Anti-aliasing
>> gives you a way of representing these.
>
> Yeah, but one pixel at 100% opacity looks a whole lot better than 2
> pixel at 50% opacity (or whatever opacity you get after gamma
> correction).

“Better” may not be better if you lose the original artist’s design.
Typography is an art, after all.

It’s all a tradeoff. Which is why it doesn’t make sense to use both
together.