[the_angry_angel]

I switched some years ago to KDE from Gnome. The only thing I wish I had from Gnome is the quality of text rendering.

Maybe it’s subjective, maybe it’s a measurable thing. I’ve not looked, but I feel KDEs text rendering is worse on my daily driver.

[mixedCase]

Linux apps pretty much universally do font rendering via FreeType. Have you tried switching to Cantarell? I for one fell in love with Inter UI back when I used Plasma.

[the_angry_angel]

I haven't, I'll give it a go :) Thank you!

[the_angry_angel]

FWIW if anyone else comes back to this I spent a little time last night and I've addressed my font rendering issues by;

* Removing an errant font-config lcdfilter configuration entry (this was a left over from when I was running "infinality" and should have been removed)

* Switching font from Noto Sans to Ubuntu

Its not perfect, but its a lot better. I'll probably play with oversampling (rendering X at a higher resolution and scaling down like OSX) at some point to see if I get the quality I want.