Re: [ft-devel] Stem darkening toggling API

[Nikolaus Waxweiler]

> I do NOT see that LCD filtering per face is a good idea, because
> color
> fringes are accentuated when stem thickness is 1/3, 2/3, 4/3... of a
> pixel and hidden at exact pixels. So it is hard to pin them on a
> specific font weight. Plus a good filter works for all situations. I
> do not think this feature is useful.

I don't think a per-face filter is necessary, I just added it to help
with multithreading. Each face has its' own set of options and it can
be used by the owning thread without holding a mutex on FT_Library.