True, there's only  13 control values in the CVT. That's not really enough
for decent hinting, (I know that's a broad assumption, but I've never seen
a manually hinted font work well with that few control values

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On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> > I tried the font in Visual TrueType versions 4.2.1 using the black
> > and white and grayscale modes, and I saw the artifacts you noted in
> > your initial screenshot.  I can't tell exactly what version of the
> > Win rasterizer is being used in VTT, as it's all under the hood.
>
> Thanks.  I guess this already answers the problem: It's not a faulty
> rendering of FreeType, but `faulty' (this is, not suitable) hinting
> for B/W and normal grayscale rendering.  Only with ClearType the
> TrueType hints yield acceptable results.
>
>
>     Werner
>
>
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