On 2017.10.22 at 11:56 +0200, Nikolaus Waxweiler wrote: > > I dunno. Is LIGHT autohinter that bad? > > No, it is perfectly fine. It's just that the CFF renderer does not > have to guess, which gives a slight hinting quality boost in some > situations. Plus, I still have to get around to implement actually > good stem darkening for the autohinter.
> My proposal is to let it go and chose light as the default and have > toolkit makers implement linear alpha blending and gamma correction > instead. It looks good (also on HiDPI-screens!) and just works for the > vast majority of fonts out there. Please don't forget users that prefer Apple style font rendering: no hinting at all with linear blended glyphs. Stem darkening should have nothing to do with the autohinter. It should work equally well without it. -- Markus _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
