Adobe’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, thi

Adobe’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.