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

[Alexei Podtelezhnikov]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Nikolaus Waxweiler <address@hidden> wrote:
>> My monitor is sRGB. Yours is likely too. We are looking at the corrected
>> glyphs.
>
>
> No we aren't, precisely because of our sRGB monitors. The bitmaps FreeType
> produces wouldn't need to be corrected if our monitors had a gamma curve of
> 1.0 (= linear space), where 1 + 1 = 2. But sRGB describes a gamma curve
> approximating 2.2. So unless this is accounted for, we are looking at
> uncorrected glyphs :)

Perhaps, this is the explanation I was looking for. You are basically
saying that sRGB imposed by the monitor is not a good idea for high
contrast text rendering and has to be undone. I can buy that. So when
you talk about gamma of about 2 you actually mean power of about 1/2.
I was confused.