Re: Does Freetype work best with gamma 2.2, and how does it interact with KDE gamma setting?

[Richard L]

But if it is correcting the gamma it must assume that my monitor has a certain 
gamma?

For example, if my uncalibrated monitor has a real gamma of 2.5, Freetype 
cannot know that.
On May 4 2021, at 9:00 am, Allan Sandfeld Jensen <linux@carewolf.com> wrote:
> On Dienstag, 4. Mai 2021 01:07:42 CEST Richard L wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Two questions on gamma.
> > I have a monitor calibrator. If I hardware calibrate my monitor to a target
> > gamma of 2.2 will freetype text look better than a different target gamma
> > (say 2.0 or 1.8)? KDE Plasma has a software gamma slider. If I change this
> > from the default value of 1.0 is freetype aware of the change, and do
> > values /=1 adversely affect the quality of freetype rendering?
> >
> Freetype doesn't interact with gamma on its own. Qt will only do gamma-
> corrected rendering on Linux for CFF (OTF) fonts, in order to preserve
> "tradtional" Linux text rendering.
>
> Best regards
> Allan
>