Font rendering question

Andrew Murray <[email protected]> Mon, 11 Aug 2025 07:40:09 +1000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.fonts.freetype.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

Over at Python Pillow - =
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/issues/9146 - a user is trying =
to render a character with the following font - =
https://github.com/Adham-A/fontP5/blob/main/p5.ttf

The user is saying that when loading colored glyphs, the text should be =
larger than when it is loading without colored glyphs.

Here is code to demonstrate that FreeType reports the same height with =
and without FT_LOAD_COLOR.

    FT_Library library;
    FT_Init_FreeType(&library);
    FT_Face face =3D NULL;
    FT_New_Face(library, "./p5.ttf", 0, &face);
    FT_Set_Pixel_Sizes(face, 0, 200);
    FT_Glyph glyph;
    FT_BBox bbox;

    FT_Load_Glyph(face, 396, FT_LOAD_DEFAULT);
    FT_Get_Glyph(face->glyph, &glyph);
    FT_Glyph_Get_CBox(glyph, FT_GLYPH_BBOX_PIXELS, &bbox);
    printf("Glyph height without color %d\n", bbox.yMax - bbox.yMin);

    FT_Load_Glyph(face, 396, FT_LOAD_DEFAULT | FT_LOAD_COLOR);
    FT_Get_Glyph(face->glyph, &glyph);
    FT_Glyph_Get_CBox(glyph, FT_GLYPH_BBOX_PIXELS, &bbox);
    printf("Glyph height with color %d\n", bbox.yMax - bbox.yMin);

I=E2=80=99m surprised that this font is supposed to change size when =
using colored glyphs. I suspect that FreeType=E2=80=99s perspective is =
that glyphs should be the same size, whether they are colored or not, =
and this font is violating that. Could you confirm if you think this =
font is flawed, or if this is a bug in FreeType?

Thanks very much.=