The Xft library provides anti-aliased fonts for X11 which greatly enhances the look of Tk and other programs on X11.
It also supports rotated text (only used from Tk 8.6 onwards, and only in the [canvas]) though Tk does contain (slow) code to do rotation using classic X11 fonts.

See [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Xft] for details of Xft.

[Xft support] can be enabled for newer Tk versions by passing `--enable-xft` to configure when building Tk.

[[add info about Xft , which I presume is a library interface to
[FreeType] font handling.]]

To add xft support to [Tclkit], read the docs at [http://www.equi4.com/kitbuild.html] about customization and the genkit.local script.
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[AMG]: `--enable-xft` is on by default for [Tk].  I always have to remember to pass `--disable-xft` because I don't like it. :^(  I prefer the appearance of the bitmapped fonts over the antialiased fonts.  Can I access the bitmapped fonts with [Xft support] enabled?

[DKF]: Depends on your Xft (or is it your ''fontconfig''?) configuration. [Google] for tips on that as it is not a Tcl/Tk topic at all.

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