On 07/25/2012 10:21 AM, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 04:13:54PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >> >> Le Mar 24 juillet 2012 23:17, Michael Cronenworth a écrit : >> >>> It also turns every font into a blurry mess. This is not a subjective >>> opinion. Run the listed command on the Feature Page for DejaVu and >>> Liberation fonts (two of the biggest free fonts). With the current >>> free-type environment you have crisp, clean fonts. Enable auto-hinting >>> and every character becomes blurred including a simple exclamation mark >>> that is a single line of pixels. >> >> What you call crisp other call distorted windows-like rendering (even >> Apple does not do it that way, their rendering is closer to freetype >> autohinting) > > Which is which? There are some example here: > http://tagoh.fedorapeople.org/tmp/hints/ > *-autohint variants are clearly blurred, while -*hintfull are eligible. > The "eligible" bits are the windows-like rendering AIUI. Nicolas's point is that evaluating these results, despite Michael's statement to the contrary, is highly subjective. To me your results look like this: DejaVuSans: 10 pts - pretty much both terrible, but for completely opposite reasons! 11-16 pts - bizarrely thin lines on the -hintful ones, basically okay on -autohint. All readable, but some are just ugly. 17 pts - strange and uncomfortable variances in line thickness on -hintful but basically okay on -autohint 18-25 pts - still some thickness issues but mostly okay on -hintful, but better on -autohint, 26 pts - weirdly bold on -hintful, normal looking on -autohint The liberation screenshots follow much the same way, except the 17 pts one is lumped in with 11-16. But obviously some people have different opinions, and seem to prefer the blockiness of -hintful to the blur of -autohint. -- Peter -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
