On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 22:58 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > 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.) It seems like we're really just debating between: * Default to autohinting and tweak specific fonts to use BCI * Default to BCI and tweak specific fonts to use autohinting I'm not sure it makes sense to worry about which approach is best for the _really commonly used core fonts_ in deciding, because whichever approach we take, clearly we'll wind up taking care to make sure those fonts look good. I think the appropriate criterion to use for the decision is which approach tends to work out best for J. Random Font - the large body of less-used fonts both within the distro and outside it. These are the fonts that are _not_ going to get special treatment and will most likely wind up using the default rendering path, so we should pick the default rendering path to work best for _those_ fonts, not for the 'showcase' fonts which we take special care of. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
