onsdagen den 25 juli 2012 16:38:33 skrev Nicolas Mailhot: > Le Mer 25 juillet 2012 16:21, Tomasz Torcz a écrit : > > Which is which? There are some example here: > > http://tagoh.fedorapeople.org/tmp/hints/ > > > > *-autohint variants are clearly blurred, while -*hintfull are eligible. > > And -*hintfull variants clearly show massive distortion and sudden > thickness jumps when moving from one size to another. So they are not well > hinted either. Perhaps I can provide some input here? Personally I don't see anything I would call "massive distortion" in any of those samples. It could be because I'm not all that interested in fonts. I'm used to seeing many different glyph variants and I don't care a lot about the finer details as long as it's clear which letter is which. I think many users are probably like me in that regard. Users don't want to think about the font when they are reading a text; they want to think about the information contained in the text. The font should convey the information without drawing attention to itself. I hope font designers don't take this to mean that their work is unimportant. That's not what I'm saying. Good fonts are very important, but most of the time a good font is one that the users don't notice. Many years ago it would often happen that the line thickness varied so much between individual letters that some of the letters looked like they were bold. That was quite annoying, but I don't see that in these samples. Maybe the w could have been a little thinner in LiberationSans-hintfull.png, sizes 15 to 17, but that's a minor issue compared to how it was back then. I strongly dislike the blurry letters in the autohint samples. I lived with such blurry letters for some time, and I remember how they affected me. They annoyed me and drew my attention away from my reading. I think vertical and horizontal lines should always be a whole number of pixels wide. The thickness jumps between sizes are unfortunate, but they are an inevitable effect of limited screen resolution. I'll choose the thickness jumps over the blurry letters without hesitation. Should we hold a vote to determine how the majority of users like their fonts? Björn Persson -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
