On Thu, 2015-03-05 at 02:03 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > 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.) Sounds like Kevin knows what he's talking about. I will just add this: GTK+ (all GTK+ programs not just GNOME ones!) has a setting for hinting style: choices are None, Light, Medium, and Full. None obviously means no hints. Light means we ignore the font's native hints and use the freetype light autohinter. Medium and Full both use the font's native hints. Medium is the default on Fedora (but not on some other distros), so hints *are* useful by default. (Unless they are bad hints. Slightly ironic that Cantarell looks better with the autohinter.)
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