Le Jeu 29 octobre 2009 14:30, Christoph Frieben a écrit : > > 2009/10/29 Tomasz Torcz: >> There was a change to font properties which changed "Best shapes" >> to turn on slight hinting. > > Good point, but I wonder why this change has been made. It suffices to > look at two attachments to > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=198082 > > namely > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=351609 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=351613 > > which demonstrate that medium hinting used to give better results, > namely for MS fonts. It is well known that some old fonts like Microsoft core fonts have bad/buggy hinting (MS hides the problem by adding font-specific workarounds in its text stack). They should certainly never be used to evaluate if a general default is good or not. (that is also something to consider before activating the patented bytecode engine: in-fonts hints are not necessarily better than what freetype auto-computes in many cases) > However, this holds at least for Luxi Mono, too , > the traditional Red Hat/Fedora monospaced default font. Luxi Mono is not the Red Hat/Fedora monospaced font and is not even in the distribution. > To me, even the current system font looks blurred and uneven when > slight hinting is chosen instead of medium one. ~C Unfortunately it is very difficult to get two people to agree on the right hinting level. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
