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Man, all these years I assumed FreeType's "slight" hinting setting was secretly the 'ignore horizontal hinting' option.
by thristian 10y ago
Man, all these years I assumed FreeType's "slight" hinting setting was secretly the 'ignore horizontal hinting' option.
- edwintorok 10y agoYes, IIUC https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/text-rendering-general.html https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/text-rendering-gener... the difference is what provides the vertical hinting: FreeType < 2.6.2 hint=slight: use auto-hinter for vertical hinting FreeType 2.6.2+ hint=slight: use native "vertical-grid-only-snapping" for OpenType/CFF, fallback to autohinter "vertical-grid-only" FreeType 2.7.0 v40 default: support TrueType too for native "vertical-grid-only-snapping", and enable this by default (regardless if hint is set to slight or not?)