Re: Hinting regression in Ubuntu 23.04

James Cloos <[email protected]> Thu, 04 May 2023 12:19:10 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.fonts.freetype.user
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>>>>> "C" == Craig  <[email protected]> writes:

C> I'm curious if they have motivation to make bad fonts with no
C> hinting?  does it somehow help when/if anti-aliasing is turned on?

i presume that the motivation is that:

werner's ttfautohint, which uses the same code as freetype, is the
only floss option to add automated instructions to a sfnt.

hiring someone to do manual instructing is expensive(!) and modern
monitors tend to have enough pixel density that unhinted or autohinted
grayscale looks fine.

-JimC
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