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Re: [ft] iOS 7 system font Helvetica Neue horribly mis-hinted with FreeT
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [ft] iOS 7 system font Helvetica Neue horribly mis-hinted with FreeType 2.5.3 |
Date: |
Fri, 15 Aug 2014 20:06:47 +0200 (CEST) |
> I tried the font in Visual TrueType versions 4.2.1 using the black
> and white and grayscale modes, and I saw the artifacts you noted in
> your initial screenshot. I can't tell exactly what version of the
> Win rasterizer is being used in VTT, as it's all under the hood.
Thanks. I guess this already answers the problem: It's not a faulty
rendering of FreeType, but `faulty' (this is, not suitable) hinting
for B/W and normal grayscale rendering. Only with ClearType the
TrueType hints yield acceptable results.
Werner
- [ft] iOS 7 system font Helvetica Neue horribly mis-hinted with FreeType 2.5.3, Louis Semprini, 2014/08/12
- Re: [ft] iOS 7 system font Helvetica Neue horribly mis-hinted with FreeType 2.5.3, Louis Semprini, 2014/08/13
- Re: [ft] iOS 7 system font Helvetica Neue horribly mis-hinted with FreeType 2.5.3, Werner LEMBERG, 2014/08/13
- Re: [ft] iOS 7 system font Helvetica Neue horribly mis-hinted with FreeType 2.5.3, Louis Semprini, 2014/08/14
- Re: [ft] iOS 7 system font Helvetica Neue horribly mis-hinted with FreeType 2.5.3, Werner LEMBERG, 2014/08/14
- Re: [ft] iOS 7 system font Helvetica Neue horribly mis-hinted with FreeType 2.5.3, Louis Semprini, 2014/08/15
- Re: [ft] iOS 7 system font Helvetica Neue horribly mis-hinted with FreeType 2.5.3, Werner LEMBERG, 2014/08/15
- Re: [ft] iOS 7 system font Helvetica Neue horribly mis-hinted with FreeType 2.5.3, jason campbell, 2014/08/15
- Re: [ft] iOS 7 system font Helvetica Neue horribly mis-hinted with FreeType 2.5.3,
Werner LEMBERG <=
- Re: [ft] iOS 7 system font Helvetica Neue horribly mis-hinted with FreeType 2.5.3, jason campbell, 2014/08/15
- Re: [ft] iOS 7 system font Helvetica Neue horribly mis-hinted with FreeType 2.5.3, Werner LEMBERG, 2014/08/15