(please CC: me, as BTS doesn't send mails to submitter by default) On ven, 2008-03-07 at 21:56 +0100, Ben Laenen wrote: > That's because at those small sizes, there are not enough pixels left to > render all those details. In this case rendering them would make the > characters much too wide.
Hmhm, what exactly is a “Point” in a 7pt font size? > > TrueType fonts have a system called hinting which aligns the outlines to > the pixels of a screen. Since we can't make those characters wider than > 1 pixel at those small sizes, we have to make them rectangular like > that. The other option would be gray rectangles. Hmmh yeah, disabling hinting helps, but the fonts don't look nice at all :/ Cheers, -- Yves-Alexis
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