| Summary: | Bad bold font rendering | ||
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| Product: | [I don't know] kde | Reporter: | Lalit Shankar Chowdhury <lalitshankarch> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED UPSTREAM | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | deniso99, kde, lalitshankarch, nate |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Arch Linux | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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| Attachments: | Observed | ||
We're just using the standard "make it bold" code, which means this is an issue with either Qt itself, or the fontconfig setup on the machine. I have a vague memory of a Qt bug report about this a year or so ago, but I can't find it now. In the meantime, talking with your distro folks about the fontconfig they ship may be useful. I've found various Qt issues about bad bold font rendering, especially with non-default fonts. See: - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-131574 - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-46042 - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-63792 If it's not one of these, it's probably something similar. *** Bug 483334 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** |
Created attachment 181532 [details] Observed SUMMARY Bad font rendering for bold fonts. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Change UI font to Adwaita Sans/Inter 2. Hover over the clock widget OBSERVED RESULT The correct bold version of the font is not picked. Instead, it's artifically bolded which makes the bold text look bad. (Attached screenshot) EXPECTED RESULT Bold font is rendered properly in About page of settings. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: 6.14.6-2-cachyos KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.14.0 Qt Version: 6.9.0