He wrote back, here's what I've learned: 1. He uses a program called Fontographer by Fontlab [1] which apparently includes a couple of algorithms for autohinting. He said that it would be a huge task to do the hinting manually for such a large number of glyphs, so it's all done by the software. 2. He does not install both fonts simultaneously on his systems, he chooses whichever looks best to him, e.g. on windows vista he prefers the one without hinting. That explains the same name and metadata in both of them. 3. He hasn't run any tests on anything other than windows and he advises users to check the provided HTML file in order to decide which font works best on their systems.
[1] http://www.fontlab.com/font-editor/fontographer/ -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
