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There is a marked difference between letter shapes rendered with FreeType and with Quartz. Judging by the letter shapes, I would say it's highly likely iOS use
by mietek 14y ago
There is a marked difference between letter shapes rendered with FreeType and with Quartz.
Judging by the letter shapes, I would say it's highly likely iOS uses the same renderer as OS X, at least for common fonts like Helvetica Neue.
However, I don't know if I've seen any CFF fonts. Perhaps this is where FreeType would come in?
- Samuel_Michon 14y agoAdobe’s solution is mostly interesting for OpenType/CFF and PostScript fonts. iOS’ system fonts are TrueType, so this would only come into play in websites, third party apps, and PDFs that use embedded fonts. Besides, iOS doesn’t use hinting embedded in fonts. http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2010/12/the-benefits-of-opentypecff-over-truetype.html http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2010/12/the-benefits-of-... http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2011/09/postscript-comes-to-typekit.html http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2011/09/postscript-comes... “There is a marked difference between letter shapes rendered with FreeType and with Quartz.” Oh, definitely. FreeType has always looked like crap (to me) and iOS never did, so I don’t believe iOS’ font renderer is 100% FreeType.
- gillianseed 14y agoFrom what I've experienced, I find iOS and Android font rendering is equal in quality, and Android uses freetype so I wouldn't be surprised at iOS using the same.