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Dear font authors: Please screenshot renderings via multiple important renderer, important ex: Apple Safari on a Retina box (highlights weird over-bolding due

Dear font authors: Please screenshot renderings via multiple important renderer, important ex: Apple Safari on a Retina box (highlights weird over-bolding due to their hinting prefs), Chrome and Firefox on Windows (both use Freetype, but custom builds and don't quite match stock), and anything normal on a Linux that doesn't use a hacked up Freetype (ergo Ubuntu is out, so is RHEL/Centos and Fedora). Also, in both white on black and black on white, because font rendering is non-linear in respect to the 2.2 gamma curve (fun fact: everybody still uses 1.8 gamma for font rendering).

FireBeyond 9y ago
> anything normal on a Linux that doesn't use a hacked up Freetype (ergo Ubuntu is out, so is RHEL/Centos and Fedora). Your definition of "normal", "important" Linux _excludes_ Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS, and Fedora? I get your point about hacked up FreeType, but given that the three largest distributions on the planet are excluded from your list doesn't really gel.
- deleted 9y ago
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- beefsack 9y ago
  Aren't the FreeType patches less relevant now since the new v40 interpreter[1] was released? [1]: https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/subpixel-hinting.html https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/subpixel-hinting.htm...
  - noir_lord 9y ago
    Ubuntu is still much better out the box than Fedora (though it's a simple fix with freetype-freeworld) on none-HiDPI screens - though it's subjective obviously.
CodeWriter23 9y ago
Screen shot renderings? How about just dogfooding the font so one can see how it actually performs.
- CodeWriter23 9y ago
  Try viewing source on the site before deeming my comment as noise: https://rsms.me/interface/res/sample.png https://rsms.me/interface/res/sample.png
  - pluma 9y ago
    Wow, that's jarring. I thought images as text were a thing of the past. Good thing at least the rest of the page is actual text.
spatulon 9y ago
My understanding is that Chrome and Firefox both use Microsoft's DirectWrite API for rendering text on Windows, not Freetype.

FireBeyond 9y ago

> anything normal on a Linux that doesn't use a hacked up Freetype (ergo Ubuntu is out, so is RHEL/Centos and Fedora). Your definition of "normal", "important" Linux _excludes_ Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS, and Fedora? I get your point about hacked up FreeType, but given that the three largest distributions on the planet are excluded from your list doesn't really gel.

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beefsack 9y ago
Aren't the FreeType patches less relevant now since the new v40 interpreter[1] was released? [1]: https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/subpixel-hinting.html https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/subpixel-hinting.htm...
- noir_lord 9y ago
  Ubuntu is still much better out the box than Fedora (though it's a simple fix with freetype-freeworld) on none-HiDPI screens - though it's subjective obviously.

CodeWriter23 9y ago

Screen shot renderings? How about just dogfooding the font so one can see how it actually performs.

CodeWriter23 9y ago
Try viewing source on the site before deeming my comment as noise: https://rsms.me/interface/res/sample.png https://rsms.me/interface/res/sample.png
- pluma 9y ago
  Wow, that's jarring. I thought images as text were a thing of the past. Good thing at least the rest of the page is actual text.

spatulon 9y ago

My understanding is that Chrome and Firefox both use Microsoft's DirectWrite API for rendering text on Windows, not Freetype.