On Mar 25, 2:52 pm, Mike Reed <[email protected]> wrote:
> Indeed, its unhinted to keep it small. That said, we could (with some
> $$) have it hinted, either generically, or with cleartype in mind.
Our font fallback is incomplete, Uniscribe is a no-go due to the
sandbox. This seems something worth exploring.
For these purpose the font wil have to include most (all?) unicode
points so it will be pretty big.
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Brett Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Alex Russell <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
>
> >> MSFT did a new set of fonts to take specific advantage of ClearType:
>
> >>http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ClearTypeFonts.mspx
>
> >> The "Core Fonts" are still available and installed by default on all
> >> windows versions that I can find information on, but they were
> >> designed for a simpler time when sub-pixel hinting was still rare. I'm
> >> not sure that implies that we should do anything in particular WRT
> >> Droid, though.
>
> > I have them on my Windows box. They are nice fonts, but I think they
> > are optimized for the antialiasing algorithm on Andorid: I don't find
> > that they look quite as good on Windows using ClearType.
>
> > For a while, I was interested in including their fallback font which
> > we could use to guarantee that glyphs are available for most
> > characters. But (I assume) for space reasons on the phone, this font
> > is not hinted, so looks pretty ugly.
>
> > Brett
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