Hi Dan, Quoting Dan Amelang <daniel.amel...@gmail.com>:
Hi Juan, Thanks for the screenshots, that helps a lot! Now, it would be ideal to have a visual like this to for the comparison: http://typekit.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/jensonw-900.png. But, I know that you've got limited time to work on this, and such a thing wouldn't be very high priority. Maybe down the road.
Please take a look at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13285702/Morphic3-TimesNewRomanSample.png I used Times New Roman for the sample. It is similar but not identical to the font in the Adobe demo image. I did it by converting the text to SVG in Inkscape, then using Morphic 3 to draw the svg file. There is no hinting at all here! Just better rasterization. The shape and weight is truer and more uniform (especially at smaller sizes), most glyphs look sharper. Starting from the third line, the quality is consistently better.
Also, comparing your renderer+stroke font to the recently open sourced Adobe font rasterizer would be interesting, too
(http://blog.typekit.com/2013/05/01/adobe-contributes-cff-rasterizer-to-freetype/). As far as I can tell, Adobe's rasterizer is pretty much the the state-of-the-art rasterizer for outline font rasterization. If you're making the case that outline fonts are intrinsically unable to match the quality of your stroke font, this comparison would be a convincing way to do
so.
I think the real contribution of Morphic 3 here is better rasterization, that doesn't need hinting to give very crisp and detailed results.
Going back to the topic of Morphic 3 rendering TrueType fonts, I'm attaching a few unfiltered zooms from your M3-TTF.png (your more recent M3-TTF-5.png looks the same in these areas). Notice the saturated colors in the middle of the black text. You mentioned that you have color fringing problems with <9 point sizes, but this font is about 12pt and the problem doesn't look like color fringing (i.e., the coloring isn't light nor just on the fringes, see http://typekit.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/gdi-cleartype.png for what I understand color fringing to look like). Maybe something else is going on here? ... snip ... Dan
Yes. There was a bug there. It only happened for curve segments shorter than one pixel, affecting only very small point sizes. Thanks for pointing it out! The sample I prepared today clearly shows that the bug was fixed. Cheers, Juan Vuletich
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