Hi,

Is there way to make fonts smoothing little sharper? I've set hinting to strong and enabled RGB rendering, but still nato 8pt needs IMO little more blackness. Are there tools to configure it?

Best regs.

You can try to manually change the font configuration:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/font_configuration

I do not know of a GUI tool to edit .config/fontconfig/fonts.conf, probably because its complex rules are hard to visualize.

Full documentation is available here:
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/fo ... -user.html

I switched to liberation sans 8 and used default settings except rgb subpixel rendering and turned on full hinting for super sharp small fonts like 8 that I use for UI:

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 <match target="font">
  <test compare="less_eq" name="pixelsize">
   <double>11.0</double>
  </test>
  <edit name="hintstyle">
   <const>hintfull</const>
  </edit>
 </match>

I've made further adjustment, maybe will be useful for someone:

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<fontconfig>
 <dir>~/.fonts</dir>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="rgba">
   <const>rgb</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 
 <match target="font">
  <edit name="lcdfilter" mode="assign">
   <const>lcdlight</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 
 <match target="font">
  <test compare="less_eq" name="pixelsize">
   <double>11.0</double>
  </test>
  <edit mode="assign" name="rgba">
   <const>none</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 
  <match target="font">
  <test compare="less_eq" name="pixelsize">
   <double>11.0</double>
  </test>
  <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
   <const>hintfull</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 
 <match target="font">
  <test compare="more" name="weight">
   <const>normal</const>
  </test>
  <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
   <const>hintslight</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 
</fontconfig>