On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 13:51, Combelles, Christophe (MED, ALTEN) wrote: > Does anybody know what is the difference between a good font and a bad font? > > (The rendering engine has an important job, but the font is important too.) > I have found that the program pfaedit is included by default in > mandrake, it seems to be a very good tool to build fonts. > But is having a good tool enough to build a good font ?
Nope. I don't understand enough about fontography to understand the problems exactly, but a good tool certainly isn't all you need. See the difference between, say, Mandrake 9.0's default "sans" font and Verdana as an example. I *believe* the trickiest part is in tweaking the hinting, but I'm not sure of that. -- adamw
