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That's kerning, not hinting. Hinting changes the glyphs themselves to lie more regularly on a pixel grid.
by panic 15y ago
That's kerning, not hinting. Hinting changes the glyphs themselves to lie more regularly on a pixel grid.
- JoshTriplett 15y agoAs far as I know, the hinting instructions embedded in a font also includes information about how to do kerning for that font, as well as replacement glyphs for particular sets of adjacent characters (such as ff).