Hi Nikolaus,
This looks good!
Question: I see the extra weight is applied only to the right hand side of the
vstems. Is this because of the way the emboldening function works? Have you
noticed any issues with the sub-pixel translation that this causes? (I don't
think so, and they are unhinted anyway)
Thanks.
-Dave
On 9/5/2015 5:11 AM, Nikolaus Waxweiler wrote:
Very nice, thanks! Unfortunately, I currently don't have sufficient
time to review the code; probably in the beginning of October.
Sure, what matters is that it finds its' way to master and to the masses
eventually :) I'll test out Dave's 300,250,250,0 parameters in the mean time
and maybe look at the TrueType driver.
I'm currently dogfooding the darkener without gamma correction (software pixman
is too slow...) and find that text isn't much uglier than usual using lcdlight,
so it may be possible to enable this by default without too many complaints
from unsuspecting users.
I was thinking about writing an announcement article or something if you release a
version with the darkener to explain why it's done, what users should know (lcdlight!)
and why distro maintainers and drawing-library-developers should care. I hope this would
increase acceptance and maybe (attention: wishful thinking) some collective impulse to
improve things instead of "MY FONTS LOOK DIFFERENT YOU ANUSES". Maybe even a
longer article that explains the font and font rendering situation on Linux and what
should be done to improve it, to publish it on LWN.net and/or the German c't. I'll see.
For now, I'll bask in the glory of emboldened but not gamma-corrected glyphs.
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