The Xft library provides anti-aliased fonts for X11 which greatly enhances the look of Tk and other programs on X11.
See [L1 ] 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 [L2 ] about customization and the genkit.local script.
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?