Re: [ft] iOS 7 system font Helvetica Neue horribly mis-hinted with FreeType 2.5.3

[jason campbell]

True, there's only  13 control values in the CVT. That's not really enough for decent hinting, (I know that's a broad assumption, but I've never seen a manually hinted font work well with that few control values

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On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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