*Please*, add an option to enable gamma correction for font rendering in your applications/desktop

[Yasand123]

Currently, on Linux, most GUI toolkits do not natively support proper rendering of text with linear blending and gamma correction by default. In contrast, Windows and MacOS enable gamma correction by default, leading to improved text legibility according to many users.

For example, when I switched to Kitty, a terminal emulator, I found that text became much easier on the eyes. This was because Kitty has its own implementation of gamma correction, as detailed in this link.

I hope the PopOS team considers supporting this, imho, accessibility feature. It would be a tremendous help for people like me who struggle with reading on screens without it.

Thank you.

[mmstick]

Have you tested cosmic-term, cosmic-edit, and cosmic-store? Or is this only an inquiry?

[Yasand123]

Have you tested cosmic-term, cosmic-edit, and cosmic-store? Or is this only an inquiry?

I have tried cosmic-term on Arch Linux (AUR) and it did not have it, so I made an assumption it was not supported, also because this is the default behavior in most Linux GUI applications/toolkits outside of what I tested myself.

[kkanungo17]

This is the same question I posed in pop-os/cosmic-text#195, and is better addressed there. To reiterate though, cosmic-text actually was doing the correct thing, but then after web-colors was merged they switched to the "wrong" rendering.