00:50 <mawww> Hi, I am trying to move from a bitmap font (Tamzen currently) towards a TTF one (Monoid) but I am struggling to get that font to look as sharp in foot as it does in a browser. More specifically, in foot it looks gray and faint, and I am not sure how to get it to look brighter (this is especially the case with a non-opaque background).

00:51 <mawww> I have managed to slightly improve the test intensity by enabling freetype's stem darkening using FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="cff:no-stem-darkening=0 autofitter:no-stem-darkening=0", but the text still looks more gray than I'd like, so I wonder if this is a known issue

04:52 <dnkl> llyyr: saw your PR. Will take a look once my internet is back...

04:53 <llyyr> sure

04:54 <dnkl> mawww: could be several reasons, but I'd guess either gray-scale antialiasing vs. subpixel antialiasing, or gamma-correct blending vs. incorrect blending

04:55 <dnkl> foot doesn't log subpixel vs. gray-scale antialiasing, but you can take a screenshot and zoom in; subpixel will have blue and red edges

04:56 <dnkl> foot before 1.21 always did gamma *incorrect* blending, but 1.21 can do correct blending if compositor supports it. "foot -d info" logs if it is enabled or not

04:56 <dnkl> if it is enabled, you can disable it with "gamma-correct-blending=no"

04:57 <dnkl> fwiw, in my limited testing, stem darkening only works with .otf, not .ttf

04:59 <dnkl> I also think Firefox, for example, does subpixel *positioning*. this is not supported by foot, at all