That's "normal". It's what happens when you render a scalable font with no antialiasing and it doesn't have proper hinting. Some fonts looked like that in the Win95 days too, though the default UI fonts were carefully and manually hinted to avoid that.
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I wonder if I'm the only person who always installed proprietary Verdana and Tahoma on Linux until the HiDPI screens became available. Because antialiasing is too blurry and hard on eyes especially with bad hinting.
Did you also install custom builds of FreeType with the patented bytecode hinter enabled? ;)
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yes but "before HiDPI" screens means something pre-2012
End of conversation
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Sure but Tahoma/Verdana looked reasonable even with stock FreeType or without hinting, compared to any free font
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