The effect is decent on large fonts, but for normal sizes i prefer bytecode hinted fonts. At the moment it seems normal anti aliasing helps the fonts become a little less grainy, without making them overly thick. I'm still trying what is the best turn over point. But up-to-and including size 12 does not benefit from this.
Maarten. On 5/18/07, Maarten Maathuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I might give it a try, thank you. Maarten. On 5/18/07, Adam Sampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Maarten Maathuis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I do have one small question, why is the autohinter so ugly? (Is > > this on purpose?) > > It's an autohinter -- it's doing the best job it can with the limited > information it's got. The Freetype guys have done wonders with it over > the last couple of years; it's not quite as good as a human type > designer can manage yet, but in the latest releases it's often hard to > tell the difference. > > I've found it's worth playing with unhinted font rendering if you're > on a big display, though, since that avoids the glyph distortion that > hinting introduces. David Turner and Jinghua Luo (among others) did > some experimental work which used FIR filtering to produce extremely > nice unhinted text rendering on subpixel-capable displays without the > colour fringing that cairo/libXft usually produce; I've put the > patches I'm currently using here: > > http://offog.org/stuff/cairo-fir.diff > http://offog.org/stuff/libXft-fir.diff > > (If you want to see how this looks without messing with your system > libraries, the Gargoyle IF interpreter has a built-in text renderer > that uses the same approach: > > http://ccxvii.net/gargoyle/ > > Trying to figure out why Gargoyle's text looked nice on my display was > how I found the patches above...) > > -- > Adam Sampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://offog.org/> > > > _______________________________________________ > Freetype-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel >
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