So Alexei noted that he found stem darkening too strong. And it got me
thinking again. As long as cairo/Qt5/Skia and others don't ship with
LAB+GC by default on their X11/Wayland backends, maybe enabling it by
default for the CFF driver and autohinter just creates angry users and
more work for packagers?
Currently, stem darkening is done inconsistently, so using the native
TrueType and Type1 engines won't get you any darkening. Maybe I should
work out general support for all drivers first and *then* I can try
convincing packagers to ship with it enabled, plus enabled versions of
e.g. Qt5 and Skia?
This would also lead to more consistent rendering if we really change
the meaning of FT_LOAD_TARGET_LIGHT to mean "Use native Y-only-snapping
if driver and font supports it and Y-only autohinter otherwise".
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