Ah, so it’s mostly about making Windows fonts look better. Do you have a comparison screenshot, before and after?

Sadly, I was already forced to deal with most of this, because at some point in the past the font rendering in my status bars started to look horrible. I now have to use settings that enabled very strong hinting, anything else just looks like garbage:

https://www.uninformativ.de/git/infofeld...E.html#l70

But I must only set $FREETYPE_PROPERTIES for the processes that run the bars (launcher). Overall, the new interpreter v40 produces better result.

I didn’t know that fontconfig can filter per program. That might come in very handy in the future.


– edit: At the end of the day, what we/I need is more pixels. These are all hacky workarounds.