Re: Does Freetype work best with gamma 2.2, and how does it interact with KDE gamma setting?

Allan Sandfeld Jensen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.fonts.freetype.user
Message-ID <2123445.oHxd3uEReF@twilight> 
On Dienstag, 4. Mai 2021 01:07:42 CEST Richard L wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Two questions on gamma.
> I have a monitor calibrator. If I hardware calibrate my monitor to a target
> gamma of 2.2 will freetype text look better than a different target gamma
> (say 2.0 or 1.8)? KDE Plasma has a software gamma slider. If I change this
> from the default value of 1.0 is freetype aware of the change, and do
> values /=1 adversely affect the quality of freetype rendering?
> 
Freetype doesn't interact with gamma on its own. Qt will only do gamma-
corrected rendering on Linux for CFF (OTF) fonts, in order to preserve
"tradtional" Linux text rendering.

Best regards
Allan
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