XFCE-Desktop: Fonts look different after latest Update 23.08.23

[stefan]

After installing the latest GhostBSD XFCE 23.08.23 update the fonts look different.

My default fonts are Arimo Regular and Monospace Regular.

The Arimo font looks like a condensed font now. There is not enough space between the
characters. I increased the dpi from 96 to 99 and now the font looks a bit better but is
still different from before the update ...

The Monospace font is much thinner now and I replaced it with Liberation Mono in the
terminal so it's better readable for me.

Has anyone experienced the same "issue"? Any idea why the fonts look different after the
update? I didn't realize that the above font-packages were updated.

... well I see that the freetype2 package was updated. Can this package be responsible for
the display of fonts?

Thanks and best regards
Stefan

[stefan]

I searched the internet and played around with the font-settings in XFCE Appearance/Fonts.

I think the update of the freetype2 package is the reason that the fonts look different.

When I set hintstyle to hintslight, then the fonts look normal again. My former setting was
hintfull. I also disabled the custom dpi-value.