For those who haven't followed recent discussions, I have been porting the Sophie project's FreeType code over to 3.9, and integrating it with my sub-pixel anti-aliasing code which is based on the work begun by Henrik Gedenryd.
Windows users can download a self contained world (Win32 VM, plugins, image based on 3.9a6705, Bitstream Vera fonts etc.) from here...
http://www.zen61439.zen.co.uk/Squeak3.9a6705_freetype.zip
There are instructions, in a Workspace, for installing new fonts, turning sub-pixel anti-aliasing on/off, etc.. The image also includes Shout, ECompletion (modified to use the Vera fonts), and RoelTyper.
This is very experimental, so obviously you shouldn't use it for any serious work. It WILL crash. You have been warned. (To see it crash, run the image twice so that it warns about not being able to write to changes, the VM crashes when it tries to do the warning).
(I tried to load the code into a more recent 3.9 image, but in later images the FT2Plugin does not work. I am fairly sure that this is due to the Traits integration in 6706, which added vars to Behavior, and causes the interpreterProxy->isKindOf calls to fail. There was some discussion of this problem, earlier in the year. The VM+plugins were built from a 3.7 image, because I had problems building in 3.8 & 3.9. ).
Cheers, Andy