Alexander Ploumistos wrote:
> 1. There are now 2 fonts, the usual Symbola.ttf plus another one,
> Symbola_hint.ttf, which includes hinting instructions. I had a really
> hard time trying to find differences between the two,
Are those hinting instructions manually tuned or autogenerated with
ttfautohint? If it's the latter, there's no value in them because Freetype
already uses essentially the same autohinting algorithms ttfautohint uses,
ttfautohint was developed to provide a similar experience for platforms
without such a smart autohinter. But if they're manually tuned, then the
hinting instructions can be useful, depending on how well and how completely
the work was done. (If only a small percentage of the characters are hinted,
it will only degrade the experience because the presence of hinting bytecode
makes Freetype disable the autohinter for the whole font.)
Kevin Kofler
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