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From: | Nikolaus Waxweiler |
Subject: | Re: [ft-devel] DejaVuSans.ttf and v40 |
Date: | Thu, 15 Sep 2016 19:15:07 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 |
I have finally upgraded to 2.7 system-wide. Mostly it seems that stems are thicker, or more black - it takes a bit of getting used to; some on-line comments seem to prefer the "cleaner" v35 look. (by cleaner, I think they mean "thinner"...).
The thick look comes from DejaVu and the web core fonts being snapped to full pixels on both axes, but when in design space, the stems are much thicker. It takes some getting used to.
And DejaVuSans.ttf looks very bad at 10 ppem, with both v35 and v40. Actually it seems to be poorer with v40. (narrower) Under v38, almost all the gyphs widen, and get more readable.
I think it looks pretty okay at 10ppem. The only real difference to the autohinter is the x-height snapping.
Lastly - since v40 is now the default, why can't we have v38 compiled in by default also? There were good reasons not to before 2.6.4 because the highest was the default, but it would be nice to compile it in by default for people who like choices (or want to experiments and continues to improve v40 against v38)?
I guess packagers can do that if they want to, but it's dead weight for the vast majority of users.
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