Re: poor font rendering in white-over-black (eg Mutt)

[A Mennucc <mennucc1@debian.org>]

Alex Grigorovich wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 13:53 +0200, A Mennucc wrote:
>  
>
> > one problem is that the rendering of the fonts when using Mutt, or any 
> > other application
> > that draws white chars over black background, is much worse
> >    
>
> Try disabling font autoaliasing (Applications->Desktop
> Preferences->Font->monochrome under gnome). 
>
>  
this fixes the problem in the gnome terminal showing mutt, (or, "aptitude")
but it skrews the rendering in all other cases, so I am unwilling to do that

> I believe you can disable it for specific font/size combinations
> applying some fontconfig magic, but I've never actually worked out how.

I may look for that , too

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I have played with different fonts :
monospace is actually the best
courier is even worse.

I also played with different settings of hinting and of antialiasing:

hinting = full , antialiasing = grayscale  , font = courier 10 pt
gives the worst case : in this case, some parts of some letters
are so dark that they are almost invisible

see attachment

I really think that this is a bug ...
what package should I report against?

thax

a.