> I have the output with TRACE7, it's quite big, should I post it here > or if you suggest other sharing means?
This is probably not necessary; mentioning the debugging support was basically meant for your own education. > I am posting my script if you want to try at your end Thanks, but I'm not a Python guy, so I won't test this by myself. > font = pygame.freetype.Font("/usr/share/fonts/truetype/Sarai/Sarai.ttf", 50) I haven't found this font in the internet. What I could find, however, was a font called `Sarai Regular.ttf` (from 2007, version 1.0). The number 50 indicates the PPEM value, right? If so, hinting doesn't matter much, provided the hints are OK[*]: at such large sizes it is normally rather irrelevant whether you use hinting or not since the difference is very small. Anyway, attached you can see three images of `Sarai Regular`, showing the output of `ftview` at a size of 16ppem: * after pressing key 'B' to show TrueType hinting * after pressing key 'C' to show 'light' (i.e., auto) hinting * pressing 'h' to switch off hinting. As far as I can tell, the auto-hinted version looks quite good. Werner [*] It's not OK for this particular font, for example, look at glyph 'glyph177' (glyph index 182), which distorts the horizontal bar.