Still unable to get crisp fonts in the editor

Adrian5

I compiled QtCreator 3.3.0 with a fontconfig-enabled Qt 5.3.2 in the hopes that font-hinting would finally look right. However even though QtCreator now responds to fontconfig changes, the text still looks oddly bloated. For comparison, I have added a sample of the Mousepad text editor that comes with XFCE.

Here it is:
!http://i.imgur.com/HMIVC56.png(Mousepad and QtCreator compared)!
The word float might be the best spot to draw attention to. It almost looks like a bold version of the Mousepad render. Also note the resulting overall difference in line length.

Now you might tell me that it's a matter of taste but QtCreator is the odd out in this case, not Mousepad. On Windows 7 I also get these nice crisp fonts.

Adrian5

Can anyone look into this? Can I help myself somehow if the Qt maintainers don't care?

I found a "bug report":https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTCREATORBUG-11649 that illustrates the same issue. The "screenshot":https://bugreports.qt-project.org/secure/attachment/38551/qtcreator-blurryfonts.png shows exactly what I'm experiencing; the characters have become fuzzy and when using such a small font size, that difference really matters.

Here another "example":http://i.imgur.com/aFvIPi8.pngby a different user, it shows the difference better than my screenshot.

I was looking at some code on Github today and thought to myself how nice it looked. Turns out it's the same font (and size) I use in QtCreator, but rendered by Firefox...