[Bug 1545149] OTF/CFF conts no longer hinted horizontally
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--- Comment #17 from Pierre Ossman <ossman(a)cendio.se> ---
Freetype has (unfortunately) rather publicly declared that they are in the
"correct shapes" camp, so I have my doubts that this would be considered a bug.
Just see the TTF interpreter issue mentioned in the initial description.
Freetype seem to be waiting for the Linux graphical stack to start doing gamma
aware alpha blending, and until then everyone will just have to suck it up and
live with font rendering issues...
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[Bug 1545149] OTF/CFF conts no longer hinted horizontally
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--- Comment #16 from Nikolaus Waxweiler <madigens(a)gmail.com> ---
It is possible that this is a bug in FreeType, you may want to send a mail
there (https://www.freetype.org/contact.html) and point to this bug report.
On the subject of "removing the ability to get sharp stems": I can see your
point, but sub-par autohinting can impair reading just as well by making text
look very uneven. There is unfortunately no silver bullet here. Actually, there
is no way for a user to tell a font how she'd like the rendering to be. Neither
TTF nor OTF hinting have the notion of user adjustability (OTF maybe more so
than TTF, but nothing of that is implemented in FreeType), what you see as an
options in FreeType/fontconfig are misnamed switches and the choice you get is
largely incidental. The thing to keep in mind is that there is a lot of
familiarization baked into font rendering discussions, i.e. if you surround
yourself with mscorewebfonts and DejaVu and crank hinting to full, the
rendering in the shot above will stick out like a sore thumb -- and vice versa.
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[Bug 1545149] OTF/CFF conts no longer hinted horizontally
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--- Comment #15 from Pierre Ossman <ossman(a)cendio.se> ---
As a user I do consider this to be a big deal. But it's not because I want
fonts to look "good", even though that is also nice. The point is that the blur
makes text difficult to read and can be very straining and exhausting for some
(like myself).
I can understand that correct shapes is the default. But completely removing
the ability to get sharp stems is going to far IMO.
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[Bug 1545149] OTF/CFF conts no longer hinted horizontally
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--- Comment #14 from Nikolaus Waxweiler <madigens(a)gmail.com> ---
Probably. Although I honestly don't see this as much of a deal, full (both
directions) autohinting usually produces sub-par results no matter what you do
(the comparison shot posted further up looks ghastly to me). The only way to
get Cantarell to look fully "sharp" and good at the same time is for someone to
sit down and professionally hint Cantarell in both directions, which, imho, is
unlikely to happen (it can easily cost 5 figures).
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