[Fontconfig] [ft-devel] Re: Why did the default font settings change around freetype 2.3 release and why isn't there at least a simple "no blurry fonts" settings?

[Maarten Maathuis]

The effect is decent on large fonts, but for normal sizes i prefer bytecode
hinted fonts.
At the moment it seems normal anti aliasing helps the fonts become a little
less grainy, without making them overly thick.
I'm still trying what is the best turn over point. But up-to-and including
size 12 does not benefit from this.

Maarten.

On 5/18/07, Maarten Maathuis <madman2003 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I might give it a try, thank you.
>
> Maarten.
>
> On 5/18/07, Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org> wrote:
> >
> > "Maarten Maathuis" <madman2003 at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > I do have one small question, why is the autohinter so ugly? (Is
> > > this on purpose?)
> >
> > It's an autohinter -- it's doing the best job it can with the limited
> > information it's got. The Freetype guys have done wonders with it over
> > the last couple of years; it's not quite as good as a human type
> > designer can manage yet, but in the latest releases it's often hard to
> > tell the difference.
> >
> > I've found it's worth playing with unhinted font rendering if you're
> > on a big display, though, since that avoids the glyph distortion that
> > hinting introduces. David Turner and Jinghua Luo (among others) did
> > some experimental work which used FIR filtering to produce extremely
> > nice unhinted text rendering on subpixel-capable displays without the
> > colour fringing that cairo/libXft usually produce; I've put the
> > patches I'm currently using here:
> >
> >   http://offog.org/stuff/cairo-fir.diff
> >   http://offog.org/stuff/libXft-fir.diff
> >
> > (If you want to see how this looks without messing with your system
> > libraries, the Gargoyle IF interpreter has a built-in text renderer
> > that uses the same approach:
> >
> >   http://ccxvii.net/gargoyle/
> >
> > Trying to figure out why Gargoyle's text looked nice on my display was
> > how I found the patches above...)
> >
> > --
> > Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org>                         <http://offog.org/>
> >
> >
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