Re: [ft-devel] merged CFF and Type1 hinting code now in master

[Nikolaus Waxweiler]

> > Until recently, medium.com served some Utopia CFF font (I think?!)
> > with blue zones but without hints (result: no hinting). gov.co.uk
> > also serves some font without hints (can't determine what kind right
> > now).  Google's Caladea and Carlito fonts ship(ped?) with a hinting
> > table stub but no hints, but that triggered the autohinter iirc.
>
> A CFF that triggered the auto-hinter?

Caladea and Carlito come (came?) in .ttf form with, I think, stubbed out 
hinting tables but no actual hints on glyphs. The default NORMAL 
rendering mode then triggers the autohinter in NORMAL mode, i.e. 
x-and-y-hinting.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Google_Crosextra_Caladea_fonts

> I consider a font broken if it has a blue zone table but no hints –
> shall we really take care of that?  We don't do any harm; it's just
> that the font stays unhinted.

Hm, well, yeah, it's okay I guess. Might be solved by teaching the Adobe 
hinter to cope with blue zones alone in the distant future.