>> I am shocked to see that autohinter snaps stems when targeting LCD
>> as if MONO [...]
I don't see a problem. The stem snapping happens at the threefold
horizontal resolution, so what?
> Uh, doesn't that just do "light" hinting on the x-axis? E.g. adjust
> the outer edges of vertical stems to the pixel grid without changing
> stem width? That would be compatible with the description of
> FT_LOAD_TARGET_LCD. I don't think the autohinter can actually hint
> for mono display.
This is a misunderstanding due to bad wording, I think. We are not
talking about mono rendering on LCD.
>> I was actually contemplating making LCD synonymous to LIGHT.
>
> How about altogether removing hinting of vertical stems? ;)
Definitely not. The `strong' auto-hinter is not that bad as you two
are implying, IMHO, and maybe someone comes and further improves it.
>> I suspect this bug is intentional to deal with color fringes
>> without filtering.
Maybe, yes. However, I don't see a bug. You first have to prove that
you get better LCD results without stem snapping :-)
Werner
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