Akira TAGOH wrote:
Well, that's true for proprietary fonts, but not necessarily true
for free
fonts.
Our default font set for most languages, DejaVu, ships carefully designed
hinting bytecode written specifically for FreeType's bytecode interpreter,
and its designers explicitly ask for it to be used rather than the
autohinter. (Some people dislike the font's look with the hinting, but it is
how the designers intended it to look.)
Kevin Kofler