On 17 Jun 2011, at 19:43, Dave Crossland wrote: > Hi, > > On 17 June 2011 18:12, vernon adams <v...@newtypography.co.uk> wrote: >> I've carried out some simple tests using ttfautohint with the Ubuntu Font on >> Win XP & Win7, Chrome12 & Firefox4. >> The screenshots are at http://code.newtypography.co.uk/ > > Awesome! Thanks Vernon!
More tests are needed, i'm doing some. They only need to be simple -e.g. 'ADHESIONALGURNFACE' & 'adhesionalgurnface' as waterfalls from 6px-44px, because as yet we don't know 100% if we won't get the classic wobbly overshoots, caps and x-heights at certain sizes. > >> Looks good so far, but i shall test more fonts, particularly a serif and a >> bold display face. I chose Ubuntu Font as i know it's well documented that >> Dalton Maag put a lot of professional hours into it's truetype instructions. > > Fascinating. The autohinter produces more compact text horizontally - > there are often one more line in the Dalton-Maag hand/standard > hinting, and at 12px the autohinter makes the x-height noticably > higher. The i dot can be a bit weak compared to D-M, but perhaps they > are making it a bit heavy. At 10px the autohinted version is easilly superior imho. The DirectWrite renderings in Firefox 4 are prob better too. Some of that will be the inclusion of a version1 gasp table replacing ye olde version 0 that Dalton Maag used but it's also a good sign that the font is ok hinted. The 'stretched' x-height could be a matter of taste, but personally i would like to see the autohinter err on the side of less stretching if possible. A gui to visibly tweak the pixel snap zones ;) > > A Verdana comparison would be nice! :) erm... am i allowed to alter the truetype tables in a Verdana font?? > > -- > Cheers > Dave _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
