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It misses one huge disadvantage: lack of pixel-level control. There is no way to have really sharp and nice edges on TTF icons, they look all smudgy and just no
by flixic 15y ago
It misses one huge disadvantage: lack of pixel-level control. There is no way to have really sharp and nice edges on TTF icons, they look all smudgy and just not up to good designer's standards, especially at small sizes.
- DLWormwood 15y agoWrong; TTF (and most other vector typeface formats) support "hinting," which provides metrics to handle glyph appearances at small sizes on low resolution displays. The problem, however, is that hinting fonts takes extra work many designers don't bother with, and even if they did, rendering engines may ignore them due to a nasty thicket of patents related to font hinting. (Though I've read that the main ones have expired recently.)