Hi, Just a reminder. If you are busy with other matters, I understand, I just want to make sure this hasn’t been forgotten.
Thanks. > On 11 Aug 2025, at 7:40 am, Andrew Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Over at Python Pillow - https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/issues/9146 - > a user is trying to render a character with the following font - > https://github.com/Adham-A/fontP5/blob/main/p5.ttf > > The user is saying that when loading colored glyphs, the text should be > larger than when it is loading without colored glyphs. > > Here is code to demonstrate that FreeType reports the same height with and > without FT_LOAD_COLOR. > > FT_Library library; > FT_Init_FreeType(&library); > FT_Face face = NULL; > FT_New_Face(library, "./p5.ttf", 0, &face); > FT_Set_Pixel_Sizes(face, 0, 200); > FT_Glyph glyph; > FT_BBox bbox; > > FT_Load_Glyph(face, 396, FT_LOAD_DEFAULT); > FT_Get_Glyph(face->glyph, &glyph); > FT_Glyph_Get_CBox(glyph, FT_GLYPH_BBOX_PIXELS, &bbox); > printf("Glyph height without color %d\n", bbox.yMax - bbox.yMin); > > FT_Load_Glyph(face, 396, FT_LOAD_DEFAULT | FT_LOAD_COLOR); > FT_Get_Glyph(face->glyph, &glyph); > FT_Glyph_Get_CBox(glyph, FT_GLYPH_BBOX_PIXELS, &bbox); > printf("Glyph height with color %d\n", bbox.yMax - bbox.yMin); > > I’m surprised that this font is supposed to change size when using colored > glyphs. I suspect that FreeType’s perspective is that glyphs should be the > same size, whether they are colored or not, and this font is violating that. > Could you confirm if you think this font is flawed, or if this is a bug in > FreeType? > > Thanks very much.
