Re: [ft-devel] State of autohinter stem darkening

[Markus Trippelsdorf]

On 2015.11.03 at 18:36 +0100, Nikolaus Waxweiler wrote:
> I have attached my personal fonts.conf, it enables native (Y-axis) 
> grid-fitting for CFF fonts and the Y-axis autohinter-grid-fitting for 
> everything else. Also, RGB subpixel rendering if compiled in and the 
> light LCD filter to counter the blurriness of non-gamma-corrected glyphs 
> somewhat. Modify as you see fit. Note the "autohint" property, it 
> changes the meaning of hintmedium and full!

Would it be possible to implement TrueType stem darkening without
using hinting like in the CFF case? I really think that darkening and
hinting should be orthogonal.

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Markus