Hello nixers,
This thread stems from conversations I've had with freem on IRC.

I was wondering about the Freetype2 drivers properties and which one actually did something. So I pushed my research in an article.

I then continued in the article to show visually the difference between all the confusing settings.

The most fun part was building the last fontconfig script. For those unaware, fontconfig has a very powerful xml scripting feature with conditional operators and variables. I've left the conf at the end as an example to make Windows fonts look better (on my machine at least).

I'm still wondering why there aren't good GUIs to manage fonts. All the ones I see are missing a lot of features.
Maybe it's a case of: Nobody can do it better than yourself. And I would have to write it. I'll put this on my TODO list in all cases.

What do you think?
Have you ever used fontconfig like that?
Did you know freetype had so many toggles?