Re: Is font rendering sharper under Wayland?

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.fonts.freetype.user
Organization Geek Central
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 10:28:07 +0900, Tatsuyuki Ishi wrote:

> Wayland fractional scaling works by asking applications to
> render at a larger, integer scaling factor (e.g. 200% when asking for
> 150%), and then scaling that down by the compositor. It breaks hinting
> and introduces even more antialiasing artifacts, so I've found it
> practically unusable.

Surely antialiasing makes hinting unnecessary.
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