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

[Markus Trippelsdorf]

On 2017.10.22 at 11:56 +0200, Nikolaus Waxweiler wrote:
> > I dunno. Is LIGHT autohinter that bad?
> 
> No, it is perfectly fine. It's just that the CFF renderer does not
> have to guess, which gives a slight hinting quality boost in some
> situations. Plus, I still have to get around to implement actually
> good stem darkening for the autohinter. 

> My proposal is to let it go and chose light as the default and have
> toolkit makers implement linear alpha blending and gamma correction
> instead. It looks good (also on HiDPI-screens!) and just works for the
> vast majority of fonts out there.

Please don't forget users that prefer Apple style font rendering:
no hinting at all with linear blended glyphs.
Stem darkening should have nothing to do with the autohinter. It should
work equally well without it.

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Markus