[OpenFontLibrary] [GFD] Re: [ft-devel] new CFF engine

[Vernon Adams]

I might well do a little of that, not that i have any free time :) …but… 
I'm very curious to see how desktop UI fonts render under this new freetype CFF autohinter. 

One thing i have noticed when testing UI fonts on android and Chrome (both use a tweaked freetype) is that unhinted truetype fonts render better than ttfautohinted or manual hinted fonts. The freetype bytecode interpreter on those OS's (especially on a hi res screen) seems to result in too harsh rendering with hinted truetype fonts. I'm curious if the new CFF interpreter will bring opentype fonts to the first choice as a UI font.

-v


On 1 May 2013, at 18:05, Thomas Phinney <tphinney at cal.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Somebody with way more free time than me could do some tests of autohinted TTF and autohinted CFF under the latest FreeType.