Both rgb & bgr function properly (if showing the regular issue of using the wrong subpixel layout) however whenever you swap over to v-rgb or v-bgr fonts become extremely fringed, way beyond what a miss-matched subpixel layout does.

This is a problem for me as my proper subpixel layout is v-rgb and thus I currently have to change my layout to rgb whenever I launch ripcord and then swap back again afterwards.

I find this problem of important severity but don't want to spam the tracker if that's not the case from a dev standpoint.

What OS?

Gentoo Linux 64bit

My application code has no control over this. It's up to FreeType on your system, and Qt to some extent, which I cannot do anything about on Linux.

The reason I opened a bug here is because it doesn't affect any other application on my system that uses either Freetype or Qt, I guess I'll keep using my workaround if there's truly nothing you can do on your side. Thank you for taking the time.

It's probably because the FreeType binaries on your system were built with different or incompatible versions or options, and the Qt binaries on your system were likewise built to deal with it, unlike the Qt binaries bundled in the Ripcord AppImage. You can try extracting the AppImage and running Ripcord with the Qt binaries on your system, but there's no guarantee it will work, due to distro-induced breakages in compatibility.

I see, thank you very much for the explanation.