Interesting.... I was aware that "Font Smoothing" in Windows 95/98
would do native TT hinting and AA (at least on bold fonts), but I wasn't
aware it was even possible to do that on any Windows afterwards. (And
in fact I thought everyone had forgotten about it. ;) )
On 06/20/2012 05:33 PM, Raimund Steger wrote:
Hi,
Infinality wrote:
[...]
The choices you get in Windows (as far as I know) are to have Cleartype
on or off. In fontconfig this would correspond to the below
Windows has another option that disables AA for those erroneous cases
that you mentioned (mostly, the MS Web Fonts at low pixel sizes), and
uses grid-aligned grayscale AA otherwise, but no ClearType. This used
to be the only AA setting before ClearType was introduced (up until
Windows 2000), and it is still supported at least in Windows 7,
although some newer Microsoft applications ignore it. It's what I use
and have also configured in fontconfig, with the slight alteration
that I don't use grid alignment.
(But since it will likely still be possible to use such a
configuration, I see no issue whatsoever.)
Raimund
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