FreeType - is a popular font rendering engine. Since the 2.7 release it supports a new default mode for bytecode hinting - Subpixel hinting. So, if you work on Linux and you hate its font rendering (especially on high resolution monitors), I recommend you to install this engine to your computer.

Here are instructions (for Ubuntu), how to install the engine from PPA repositories:

 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:no1wantdthisname/ppa
 sudo apt update
 sudo apt install libfreetype6 fontconfig-infinality

and restart your computer. You will notice the difference straight away

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