The Xft library provides anti-aliased fonts for X11 which greatly enhances the look of Tk with X11.

It 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.