Is it just me or fonts really look better on GNOME and other (gtk DEs)? With the same font smoothing/anti-aliasing settings, text in GNOME is smoother and more similar to MacOS fonts.
A good example is Cantrell font. It looks way better in GNOME than in KDE.
I tend to think it’s a difference between GTK and Qt – anecdotal, but I get (what I see as) better rendering in LXDE, XFCE, and Gnome and a more heavier hand in LXQT and KDE – I haven’t done any decent comparisons comparing Qt apps inside Gnome or GTK apps inside KDE to give any sort of baseline though …