>I disagree.  There aren't any `poor hints'.  The font is simply
>designed to be rasterized as B/W only in this very range, and indeed
>it renders quite fine if you do so.

I'm basing that on looking at the hinted results in VTT. In VTT , whether
viewing B/W or subpixel rendering, the hints "pinch" the stem widths to
nearly no weight at all. It may be that the behavior of missing pixel
recovery in B/W give some acceptable results, but the hints appear to be
attempting to render the rounded stems much thinner than they should be.

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On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> > But the rendering behavior you're seeing is because of poor hints,
> > in particular the hints for the curved vertical strokes, between
> > 9-27.
>
> I disagree.  There aren't any `poor hints'.  The font is simply
> designed to be rasterized as B/W only in this very range, and indeed
> it renders quite fine if you do so.
>
> > The gasp table does indeed call for grid fitting at those sizes, ...
>
> The gasp table also says that you should use B/W rendering for those
> sizes.
>
> As you've correctly mentioned, there are serious problems with the
> `post' table, but the hints are OK.
>
>
>     Werner
>
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