There is a new pull request by andry-dev against master on the void-packages repository https://github.com/andry-dev/void-packages freetype https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/13296 freetype: enable subpixel rendering This patch enables subpixel rendering (also called ClearType) for freetype. While ClearType is patented by Microsoft, they joined the Open Source Initiative in 2017; since then Fedora also enabled it by default. A patch file from https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/13296.patch is attached