https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1469712
Marek Kašík mkasik@redhat.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |CLOSED Resolution|--- |DUPLICATE Last Closed| |2017-07-25 05:01:24
--- Comment #6 from Marek Kašík mkasik@redhat.com --- This is the same problem as in the bug #1470509. Freetype has changed default hinting engine in 2.7 from v35 to v40. The change is more apparent when the antialiasing is off. You can reproduce it in e.g. ftview by running "ftview -m "This is a test text" 19 /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf", turning off antialiasing by pressing "a" and then you can switch between the hinting modes by pressing "H". Upstream won't change it back and so we won't too.
If you prefer the older hinting engine, you can select it by setting environment variable "FREETYPE_PROPERTIES" to "truetype:interpreter-version=35" in e.g. ~/.bash_profile.
I'm closing this as notabug since the change is intentional (and looking at the freetype mailing list, they know about the visual change, also see https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/subpixel-hinting.html for more info about the engine).
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1470509 ***