> According to documentation and some other blog entries of FreeType,
> it seems that stem darkening is enabled by default for CFF fonts.
>
>
> https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/reference/ft2-properties.html#no-stem-darkening
>
> However, when looking at the source, it seems that it’s disabled
> unconditionally:
>
>
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/tree/src/cff/cffobjs.c#n1183
>
> Running git blame shows that it’s disabled in 75722f8, a commit from
> 5 years ago.
Thanks for noticing; this is a bug in the documentation, now fixed in
the git repository.
> Is my understanding correct that stem darkening isn’t actually
> enabled by default even for CFF? (Although, that would be a bit
> strange since OpenType fonts does look better than TrueType font on
> my computer.)
It was switched off to give a uniform look if combined with TrueType
fonts. We hope to eventually implement stem-darkening for TrueType,
too.
Werner
