Bug 385712 - Unhinted rendering of bold fonts
Summary: Unhinted rendering of bold fonts
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 5.11.0
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: David Edmundson
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Reported: 2017-10-13 19:07 UTC by Martin van Es
Modified: 2018-02-16 01:47 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Example of wrong bold font rendering in clock widget (4.50 KB, image/png)
2017-10-13 19:07 UTC, Martin van Es
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Description Martin van Es 2017-10-13 19:07:45 UTC
Created attachment 108336 [details]
Example of wrong bold font rendering in clock widget

Since upgrading ubuntu to Artful, that comes with libfreetype 2.8.0 all font-hinting was broken. Updating libfreetype 2.8.1 fixed normal font hinting, but still broke bold fonts in window titles.

Minutes ago, plasma was upgraded to 5.11 and hinting the bold title font was fixed. Bold fonts in plasma clock widget e.g. and kmail mail list still render unhinted though.
Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2018-02-16 01:47:24 UTC
This issue could be in Qt or in the font rendering libraries (freetype or Mesa). Plasma itself has no code to render fonts.

If this is still reproducible with a Tumbleweed live ISO or any other rolling release ISO image, I suggest to report this issue directly to Qt developers via https://bugreports.qt.io/