Re: [ft-devel] yet another group of TrueType fonts that require hinting

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I got an old "FontAvenue" package (version 1.0, date 1996/ 1997)
> manufactured by NEC, it includes several fonts that require hintings
> for readable rasterization results.  See attached pictures.

Interesting.

> In the cases of Dynalab & HuaTian fonts, the glyph structure
> is extremely broken when hintings are disabled. But in the
> cases of these NEC fonts, the structure is almost kept,
> but some strokes are changed to invisibly thin lines.
> If anti-aliasing is enabled, these thin lines are erased.

I suppose that this font is essentially a stroke font (not an outline
font), where the hinting instructions `broaden' the strokes.


    Werner