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.
The settings are not an exact match between desktops, even though they are named the same. The backend library, Freetype, that renders fonts is the same, however.