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Re: [ft-devel] ttfautohint 0.4 has been released


From: Adam Twardoch (List)
Subject: Re: [ft-devel] ttfautohint 0.4 has been released
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:58:19 +0200
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Werner,

the Lato Hairline font (download it at
http://www.latofonts.com/lato-free-fonts/#download ) is a good example.

A.

On 11-10-27 21:48, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>> Also - i have noticed ttfautohint has limitations when it comes to
>> instructing very light weighted fonts.  The autohinter is creating
>> instructions that produce much too thin stems.  The uniformity of
>> the stems seems good :) but they are simply too thin and disappear
>> at below 18-16 px.  Could there be a way to set the autohinter to
>> impose a minimum size of stem widths, for example??
> Currently, you can't control the minimum stem width.  I'll add it to
> the TODO list.
>
> Please post an example.  Theoretically, there shouldn't be stems
> thinner than one (full) pixel, IIRC.
>
>
>     Werner
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