>> Courier New should really render OK if you turn off AA for small >> pixel sizes and use the bytecode hinter. (That's what it was >> designed for, after all.) > > I'm not familiar with how to use the bytecode hinter. Nevertheless, > your two solutions yield unsatisfactory result, unfortunately. > Turning off AA is a painful experience for my eyes and emboldening > is, well, too bold for a regular typeface. You might try the infinality patch set (http://www.infinality.net/blog/). Look at the option INFINALITY_FT_USE_VARIOUS_TWEAKS which `Emboldens light and thin-stemmed glyphs automatically.' It comes with a bunch of special settings to improve the rendering of Courier (with the auto-hinter). Note that I plan to integrate some of those patches into FreeType. However, I can't give any estimate when this will happen, sorry. Werner _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
