Recently I installed Fedora 17. Font rendering in Fedora is somewhat unoptimized, thanks to many patent clad algorithms for rendering fonts. But you if you want the best, follow the steps below

1. Enable RPM Fusion Repos
   rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

2. Install freetype-freeworld package
   yum install freetype-freeworld

3. Install gnome tweak tool
   yum install gnome-tweak-tool

4. Tweak font rendering
   Open gnome-tweak-tool by typing “advanced settings”. Then set
   Hinting = Slight
   Antialiasing = Rgba

5. Configure ~/.fonts.conf
   Please save the attached file as .fonts.conf in your home folder ( ie. /home/michael/.fonts.conf ). Note the file name is .fonts.conf with a period in the begining.
   fonts
   

Above will render fonts in the best possible way (Font Rendering is matter of preference – tweak around for yourself). Now any application, Google Chrome, Firefox, etc will render fonts in the same manner.