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From: | vernon adams |
Subject: | Re: [ft-devel] A review of ttfauthint by designer of Siri |
Date: | Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:22:26 +0000 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120129 Thunderbird/10.0 |
On 09/02/12 20:49, vernon adams wrote:
It's allways been noticeable to me that when i manually hint fonts on Windows GDI, the font at small pt sizes renders on Freetype sytems with the x-height and Caps height lower than under Windows GDI. Therefore it makes sense that the reverse happens when we put 'freetype-hinted' fonts onto GDI Windows - they look too tall. In my opinion ttfautohint needs to use freetype libs that snap x-height and caps-heights lower than the standard freetype autohinter. Does that make sense? -vern
For screenshots example of this see "Oxygen Font – Manual Hinting versus the Freetype2 Autohinter" at http://code.newtypography.co.uk.
Freetype2 renders the 'native' Oxygen font at correct heights, but renders the manually hinted version not tall enough.
-v
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