Re: [ft-devel] gamma correction and FreeType

[Antti Lankila]

Antti Lankila <address@hidden> kirjoitti 1.11.2013 kello 8.25:

Dave Arnold <address@hidden> kirjoitti 1.11.2013 kello 1.06:

Attached is an image comparing the effects of blending gamma and stem darkening on different colors of antialiased text (CFF font MyriadPro-Regular).

Thanks for the interesting image.

Could you humor me and also provide gamma 2.2 versions for comparison?

I humored myself and spent this evening reminding myself how to use FT and libpng. Here is the result:

https://bel.fi/alankila/lcd/font/

I’ve been thinking of using the full 6-bit fixed point glyph advance and kerning, and completely get rid of the pixel grid, but anyway, this is what it looks like when text is rendered to subpixel grid.

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Antti