Fonts in GTK4 apps are ugly. Why?
Here is simple GTK3 app color picker
.
And here is simple GTK4 app gtk4-demos
Here is my /etc/fonts/local.conf
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<!--
per-user config ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf
global config /etc/fonts/local.conf
-->
<match target="font">
<edit name="antialias" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
<edit name="hinting" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
<edit name="autohint" mode="assign"><bool>false</bool></edit>
<edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign"><const>hintfull</const></edit>
<!-- hintstyle = hintfull | hintmedium | hintslight | hintnone -->
<edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>none</const></edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>
Do I miss something?
You should use hintslight not hintfull for hintstyle.
No, it didn’t help. Result is the same. 
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To enable this use the following file and option
~/.config/gtk-4.0/settings.ini
[Settings]
[...]
gtk-hint-font-metrics=1
[...]
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GTK#Text_in_GTK_4_applications_is_blurry_or_renders_incorrectly
It is also noted in this issue:
That you may need to also set
gtk-font-rendering=manual
For the above to be effective.
The following options may or may not also be helpful
gtk-xft-hintstyle=hintslight
gtk-xft-hintstyle=hintfull
gtk-xft-antialias=0
gtk-xft-hinting=1
(obviously choose either hintslight or hintfull for the hintstyle, and either 0 or 1 for the others)
Notes for Gnomes
Gnome will override your settings. Because Gnome.
You must use gsettings
to actually apply any of the options described above. ex;
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface font-rendering 'manual'
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This helped me
~/.config/gtk-4.0/settings.ini
[Settings]
gtk-hint-font-metrics=1
gtk-font-rendering=manual
Thanks!
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