From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sat Aug 27 10:57:03 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74C79B765D3 for ; Sat, 27 Aug 2016 10:57:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kubito@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wm0-x232.google.com (mail-wm0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c09::232]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0E57C163 for ; Sat, 27 Aug 2016 10:57:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kubito@gmail.com) Received: by mail-wm0-x232.google.com with SMTP id i5so25266089wmg.0 for ; Sat, 27 Aug 2016 03:57:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version; bh=WHf2JvZ3bGNXrlEcUrMTWgHbT80JQbR9A3kFxdVx+YM=; b=BQeofIhEPgoTG0kHZELvtCL6x6VRD+dDBU6UWpSKphLVeIBGxUf5Ft5oEodfE4ZI0s zSOh64Yc9OzYOcOWcDcs9J85wSoMXIEG7Zj+uldYplv5KIvzqrB4KGl3wI2jdff7toNU JhsaTaUpRPx0D9MojAV5tzFvMb8s0SMR+WTGtX0Qoq8UJy0IOt9UuNUZRKTG7mWOiYxV MD0hJtNz/+iUp1P3FJWY81juyjyDa5x1naTdgI1NtIs46PcTI6DMqlJZLLo0VP6qHUBZ F41KebpxUwq5Wj59Wdy4V5TutxkDERC/3Z/Kfvt9KoFIKSX7I4rcLW82kDyRV9PFdh6D NAXQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date :in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version; bh=WHf2JvZ3bGNXrlEcUrMTWgHbT80JQbR9A3kFxdVx+YM=; b=H/nPLSJrNiJicJ7OKvRRfxsoPdnH2JYB89ak1nu2IAfc7o9luj6vnL9VXGjzDjju5Z VqsfYWU/5FXq/lViOIFh0mMgl9IGJ8K7ujQqgOMM+Kji+zA9Z1ltc7Ztdh+vdCH+pquM WazCzfKi+J/z5cPR2FEN7Av/AJvXRol5F1L6hUTIdAM3TOQ+g7PDausIdk/ZpyOX6MPf 46hHsuIsNhOx4PPoMzYzBG4L1PqvAXgfv7xjQ7tHpyC09jpWEgwrX/bMqSRLfghTbrfj GG7qWp0aC4VQFlTcEPr2Vv9UjDsHEYF2cgqG9LvO7fzcAnounjWadu9e9i4Rwh/G5h64 auNg== X-Gm-Message-State: AE9vXwPB1Ol7zCVZXAd3Crpju5ErRS7MoAWjMvwi3lVlJVfoZSNlghVYeiNVdagkANkUaA== X-Received: by 10.194.164.229 with SMTP id yt5mr7966782wjb.39.1472295421348; Sat, 27 Aug 2016 03:57:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orwell.gmail.com (dhcp-077-248-147-050.chello.nl. [77.248.147.50]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id e65sm3308584wmg.3.2016.08.27.03.57.00 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Sat, 27 Aug 2016 03:57:00 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Raphael Kubo da Costa From: Raphael Kubo da Costa To: "Russell L. Carter" Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fontconfig update uglifies fonts References: <729af4af-0ed3-4d45-2e68-b4483e08110a@pinyon.org> Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 12:56:53 +0200 In-Reply-To: <729af4af-0ed3-4d45-2e68-b4483e08110a@pinyon.org> (Russell L. Carter's message of "Mon, 22 Aug 2016 17:01:33 -0700") Message-ID: <8660qmh43u.fsf@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 10:57:03 -0000 "Russell L. Carter" writes: > Hi, > > On 10/stable amd64, the recent fontconfig update makes the fonts used > in thunderbird, firefox, (u)xterm, and emacs quite a bit uglier. The > font strokes seem to be thicker and fuzzier. Emacs I fixed by > reinstalling bitstream-vera, but (u)xterm use that and they're still > broken. I ran fc-cache -f, but no change. I turned off antialiasing > via /usr/local/etc/fonts/local.conf and that made the strokes nice and > thin but overall even uglier. > > Any ideas/pointers on how to fix this? This is likely caused by the fact that the new fontconfig version allows one to choose the default hinting style and defaults to "slight"; from your description it looks like were used to a different value. You can either change the HINTING option when building the port or create a ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf with something like this: hintnone