> I'm curious if they have motivation to make bad fonts with no
> hinting? does it somehow help when/if anti-aliasing is turned on?
The relation between cost and benefit is no longer given: The
percentage of people who actually use a low-DPI screen together with
fonts rendered as monochrome is very near to zero. Adding B/W hints
to fonts is *extremely* expensive because only a very small group of
experts is able to do it properly.
Apple ships OSX without hinting support since more than ten years,
IIRC. The resolution of hand-held devices is normally higher than
200dpi – at such high DPI values it is simply not possible at all to
*see* the effects of B/W hinting.
For special devices that use very low DPI values (say, a small LCD
screen of a terminal at a supermarket counter) it is more
straightforward to create a set of bitmap strokes for the smallest
ppem values, doing 'normal' hinting for larger sizes.
Werner
