Linux font stack developers drop support for soft anti-aliasing
Some users who use the hintfull hinting method may have noticed that when moving from Pango version 1.43 to 1.44, the kerning of some font families got worse or broke completely. The problem is caused by the fact that the Pango library switched from using FreeType to obtain information about the kerning (spacing between glyphs) of fonts to HarfBuzz, and the developers of the latter decided not to support anti-aliasing […]