fwiw, in order to get good-looking fonts I went back to duganchen's packages
Code:
cairo-1.10.2-x86_64-3lcdfilter
fontconfig-2.9.0-x86_64-3lcdfilter
freetype-2.4.10-x86_64-2lcdfilter
plus the corresponding compat32 packages for multilib. Unfortunately it seems the lcdfilter patch has been discontinued.