How to Improve Font Rendering for GTK Apps in KDE

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How to enable Font Hinting for GTK based applications in KDE to improve their appearance in KDE desktop.
This tutorial applies to Ubuntu and Debian based Distros, such as Kubuntu, Netrunner, and SolydK. But it may also work with other Distros like Arch and Fedora.

Terminal Command:
sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-autohint.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/

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