Hey list, so I've been discussing some proposed font configuration changes in #gnome-design on IRC. Someone insisted that my aim of removing all opinionating about hinting in the layers above fontconfig is misguided (@Behdad: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11838).
After some back and forth, he found that hintslight translates to FT_LOAD_TARGET_LIGHT in cairo and argued: FT_LOAD_TARGET_LIGHT always triggers the autohinter, even when the CFF engine natively does what LIGHT probably intends to do: Y-only-snapping of stems. That way, GNOME can be set to default to "slight" so the autohinter handles TrueType and Type1 fonts and the native CFF engine handles CFF fonts. Opinions? What came to my mind: - Should this also include TrueType fonts once ClearType is fully handled and the font that should be rendered supports ClearType? What about emboldening that can't be done on both axes in native mode vs CFF fonts? - And by extension, Type1 fonts once the engine is overhauled? - Once all hinting engines support Y-only-snapping natively, should the autohinter only activate with the FT_LOAD_FORCE_AUTOHINT flag? _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
