The improvement you''re seeing is down to using sub-pixel rendering alone, I think - and yes it does have an effect on the colouring - some fonts exhibit quite unacceptable colour fringing etc. puppy does include a libfreetype.so already, which is required for truetype font support for Xft - but thi...

On third thoughts, it really does depend on the font, the font size, and the to some extent, the display. for some fonts, at some sizes the autohinter is best, other situations the bytecode hinter is best. But sometimes the difference can be quite substantial

On second thoughts I may have the vera fonts the wrong way round - ie they look better with autohinting, rather than bytecode hinting.
Anyway - images on the way....

The bitstream fonts don't quite look as nice as the microsoft ones, in particular at low point sizes the 'e' smudges quite a bit, and the mono, and serif faces look as though they've come from a manual typewriter - the text looks uneven somehow. Anyway, they do still look better with the freetype li...

Hi, Well, I'm a newbie to puppy, though I've been using and sometimes tweaking linux since the early days. I have to say puppy seems to hit a real sweet spot of simplicity, size and utility. Well done ! One thing that still isn't fixed in Linux, and in other unices, are fonts. The first problem I fi...