I find the printed/actual design of DejaVu Sans Mono too wide. The hinting
at 9pt makes it look taller, and I like the resulting glyphs.

How can I make the entire font look that way (taller, adjusted glyphs)?

If I can't do this, I may create a vertically stretched version of DejaVu
Sans. Maybe I may even redraw the glyphs to create my own font that looks
like DejaVu 9pt, even when printed out.

On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 10:34 PM, Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> > I like how DejaVu Sans Mono looks at 9 point, but I find it too wide
> > at other sizes.  I want printouts and all on-screen sizes to look
> > like 9pt (12px).
>
> It's not clear to me what system you have, but I think that your
> application (or OS) is not correctly applying LSB and RSB deltas while
> auto-hinting.
>
> Cf. this bug report.
>
>   https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?19044
>
> > Can I load the hinting information at 9 point, get the transformed
> > control points, and save a copy of the font with control points
> > permanently moved?
>
> No, this won't work automatically.
>
> > (How was DejaVu originally hinted? Would I have to run ttfautohint?)
>
> ttfautohint might help.  However, if your system does auto-hinting for
> all fonts, the TrueType hints created by ttfautohint are completely
> ignored.
>
>
>     Werner
>
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