Re: fonts for gfxmenu, help needed

[Michal Suchanek]

2009/11/29 Qianqian Fang <address@hidden>:
> Michal Suchanek wrote:
>>
>> It's good enough to read the character but if I designed a theme with
>> this character in some large caption I would immediately start looking
>> for a font that has a decent glyph for this character. It's far from
>> nice to look at.
>>
>
> I was talking about "rasterization quality", do you mean
> the aesthetics of the glyph topology/structure?

Aestetics is relative but uniform stroke width is not.

>
> However, I am pretty sure you don't need to worry about
> "灱" because it is an extremely rarely used character and
> was only used in ancient literatures. As a matter of fact,
> in the over 20,000 Han char. included in the fonts I mentioned,
> the top 3,000~4,000 covers 99.6% of the use in modern Chinese [1].
>

Yes, I suspected it would not be a common character, my character
table does not list a meaning for it.

However, similar issue can be seen with the 刀 character in the
microhei_24px and microhei_32px rasterization. In fact, the stroke
width is almost inverted in these two rasterizations although they are
supposedly the same font.

Thanks

Michal