I've recently installed freetype 2.3.1 with bytecode interpreter and the LCD filtering enabled and the results are great, the best freetype release so far, I have even installed the cario and libXft rogue patches and am loving the results. The only thing is the rendering of the bold N and W is slight off, I have tried fixing it but nothing seems to help, if any one has any ideas please let me know. Here is a screen
http://webpages.charter.net/daedra/font.png