On Thursday 22 August 2002 12:31 am, Dustin Norlander wrote:
| I very much agree with Marcus, hinting is NOT worth the effort. Consider
| that hinting is really only absolutely necessary at font sizes less then
| 24 (excluding <5 which are going to be illegible no matter what).
| Embedding bi
On Thursday 22 August 2002 12:31 am, Dustin Norlander wrote:
| I very much agree with Marcus, hinting is NOT worth the effort. Consider
| that hinting is really only absolutely necessary at font sizes less then
| 24 (excluding <5 which are going to be illegible no matter what).
| Embedding bi
On Wednesday 21 August 2002 8:52 pm, Markus Kuhn wrote:
| Another quick discussion related to font file format philosophy:
|
|Is hinting really worth the effort?
|
| Font file formats (even scalable ones) in principle ought to be
| relatively simple creatures. The only aspect that really ad
Around 17 o'clock on Aug 21, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> Is hinting really worth the effort?
If you separate "hinting" into the two pieces supported by TrueType
(instructions and deltas), then I would agree that the instruction portion
is irrelevant. Good TrueType output is almost always generated
I very much agree with Marcus, hinting is NOT worth the effort. Consider
that hinting is really only absolutely necessary at font sizes less then 24
(excluding <5 which are going to be illegible no matter what). Embedding
bitmaps is much easier. For my most recently released font (
http://
Another quick discussion related to font file format philosophy:
Is hinting really worth the effort?
Font file formats (even scalable ones) in principle ought to be
relatively simple creatures. The only aspect that really adds enormous
amounts of complexity, both with regard to the development
