I have Fedora 19 with 3.8 on one of my machines as well. Can you, or anyone, tell me what's the deal with crappy font? I'm comparing it to what is in CentOS 6.4 and in RHEL 6.4. Does anyone know where this can be changed to look, er, better?
1. Install freetype-freeworld from RPM Fusion
2. Get the Microsoft fonts like Arial, Times New Roman, and Verdana
3. Edit your ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf to contain the same XML under the section "Subpixel-hinting and Font-smoothing" here: https://wiki.debian.org/Fonts