[secondcoming]

Crappy font rendering is a Linux problem. The appearance of the same font in different applications can vary wildly. It’s really shit.

[tadfisher]

The appearance varies widely because everything has incompatible layers on top of freetype, some of which respect your Freetype configuration and others which take... _ahem_... liberties.

It also doesn't help when Mozilla and Google statically-link ancient font libraries in the name of security.

[flangola7]

Isn't linking to outdated libraries a security threat?