[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 140994] [GTK] Fonts loaded via @font-face look bad

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140994

--- Comment #18 from Martin Robinson <mrobinson at webkit.org> ---
(In reply to comment #17)
> No, this one is my patch; Martin's was the one I labeled "test patch."
> 
> I was about to say "we don't look at the GTK+ font settings at all" -- we
> certainly do not do so in the freetype platform backend -- but actually I'm
> simply wrong. If I turn off antialiasing in Tweak Tool then the pages we
> load look terrible. If I turn hinting down from Medium to Slight (this
> triggers use of the freetype autohinter instead of the font's native
> hinting) then the problem with these fonts goes away. I don't know where we
> are checking these settings though.

Hrm. This sounds like a bug. :/

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