Re: [ft] Font rendering quality

[Vernon Adams]

Looking at the font rendered with freetype / ftview, it seems to only renders 
acceptably, with hinting on, if the anti-aliasing mode is set to 'light'. Your 
other option is to set hinting off in freetype. If you must use hinting, then 
it would make sense to use a less thin weight of the font.

-v


On 17 Jul 2013, at 16:00, Dave Arnold <address@hidden> wrote:

> I was curious about the unusual symptoms.
> 
> In this font, hinted vertical stems which are composed of curves are too 
> thin. The Windows GDI rasterizer has the same issue with it, so it is 
> probably a font problem. The FreeType autohinter does a better job because it 
> ignores the font hints. Or you could render with hints disabled.
> 
> -Dave
> 
> On 7/17/2013 1:07 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>> Hello Tudor!
>> 
>> 
>>> We are using FreeType 2.4.10 to render text in a project and we have
>>> a blurry output with the attached font.  Font size is 16, but the
>>> problem is present with any other font size.
>> In such cases you should always look into the `gasp' table which tells
>> you how to render the font: For ppem sizes 9-27, the font should be
>> rendered in B/W mode.
>> 
>> With the current FreeType version, and with subpixel hinting enabled,
>> you will get a much better result for AA rendering, BTW.
>> 
>> 
>>     Werner
>> 
>> 
>> PS: Ich wohne auch in Linz :-)
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