> I've just updated to Fedora 26 and unfortunately I have to say that > I find the new v40 engine makes many of the fonts I encounter to be > noticeably harder to read. One such example is DejaVu Sans Mono, > which is the default monospace font on Fedora.
A screen shot comparison would be nice. The term `harder' is very subjective. > I found the documentation for the environment variable to override > this, so the immediate issue is resolved. But thinking long term > I'd like to hear your opinions on tying this in to the load flags. > > Before 2.7 the load flags generally meant that NORMAL was hinted in > both directions and LIGHT only vertically. The new code however has > no mode that hints fully. Have you considered tying v35 to NORMAL > and v40 to LIGHT? Short answer: no. We are going to follow Microsoft w.r.t. hinting. Essentially all newer fonts only do hinting for v40, since this is today's de-facto standard. > (The documentation also states that LCD is a variant of LIGHT, but > that doesn't seem to be true in my testing) Please elaborate. Werner _______________________________________________ Freetype mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype
