Re: [ft-devel] How does one enable the new slight auto-hinting mode?

[Markus Trippelsdorf]

On 2017.04.29 at 14:06 +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> On 2017.04.29 at 12:46 +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> > On 2017.04.29 at 12:25 +0200, Nikolaus Waxweiler wrote:
> > > > >> What happens if you define AF_CONFIG_OPTION_TT_SIZE_METRICS?
> > > > > 
> > > > > No change.
> > > > 
> > > > Hmm.  This means that you don't use auto-hinting in your desktop
> > > > environment, right?  Please do `git bisect' to find out which commit
> > > > causes the changes.
> > > 
> > > I use "slight" hinting, so native CFF and the autohinter. Commit
> > > 5aa6716a5eb8409f606886b5d4e63476d85a3519 is the culprit.
> > > 
> > > I take it Firefox is not rendering fonts weirdly for the rest of you?
> > 
> >  Chromium uses its own Freetype copy
> 
> Slight correction, Chromium does use the system FreeType library.
> (Only on Android is the in-tree copy used.)
> But strangely is see no issue related to slight auto-hinting in Chromium
> at all.

Here is another example which uses webfonts:
http://ilovetypography.com/2016/04/18/the-first-roman-fonts/ 
Chromium above, Firefox below: http://imgur.com/a/WNR1R

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Markus