As Werner noted, this is because the instructions for the top and bottom of the hyphen merely align them to the grid, without relating the distance between them. This leads to rounding issues at many sizes. It's a poor strategy for hinting the character.
-- Jason Campbell [email protected] www.campbellgraphics.com www.campbellcomics.com Join me on Facebook: facebook.com/CampbellComics <http://facebook.com/CampbellComics>Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/campbellgraphic 781-799-0457 On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 6:26 AM, James Cloos <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>> "DBN" == Derek B Noonburg <[email protected]> writes: > > DBN> If you change the font size, one point at a time, the hyphen comes > DBN> and goes -- at some sizes it looks fine, at other sizes it vanishes > DBN> entirely. > > At larger point sizes the hyphen occilates between one and two pixels > thick, as well. > > The occilations also occur when both aa and hinting are disabled. > > I'm on ft master 52381c14e3a3 at the moment. > > -JimC > -- > James Cloos <[email protected]> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6 > > _______________________________________________ > Freetype mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype >
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