>> Define 'improve hinting'. It's not clear to me what you actually
>> want to achieve.
>
> Currently we are using FT_LOAD_RENDER | FT_LOAD_TARGET_MONO |
> FT_LOAD_MONOCHROME and still seeing very bad appearance. So not
> sure if I missed anything there in order for the monochrome
> character to look nicer?
This is not what I mean. I want to know *why* you need this very
special type of rendering. What's the purpose? Today, it's quite
unusual that you want monochrome rendering (at small sizes, I guess).
Werner