I'm not sure how much control you get with GDI, but the only way
I've found very thing fonts to render nicely is to use a technically
accurate hinting (i.e. essentially Freetype slight hinting, which
will make light horizontal stems be gray when less than 1px tall),
and then run post-filters on it. I'm pretty sure this can be
accomplished with just the autohinter though- It's a matter of
making it better deal with thin stems. I think the function that
modifies "dist" based on hinting strategy would need more
information about what it's hinting though, and a minimum distance
would have to be set appropriately. I'd like to figure this out,
because what I'm doing now with post-filtering is a hack, even
though it looks nice.
Here's my result (basically freetype-slight hinting, with various
post-filtering):
http://www.infinality.net/images/latohairline.png
On 11/21/2011 06:13 AM, vern adams wrote:
Hi Werner,
I have used Lato Light and Lato Hairline for these new tests
and will email you those 2 fonts for testing.
for anyone else wishing to test.
many thanks
-vern
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