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From the explanation beneath "How is this possible": > The Font Combiner application uses a couple of different techniques to overhaul fonts. All glyph forms a
by micheljansen 13y ago
From the explanation beneath "How is this possible":
> The Font Combiner application uses a couple of different techniques to overhaul fonts. All glyph forms are extracted from vectors present in the original fonts and scaled to size where appropriate, the vertical metrics are recalculated from scratch, and spacing and fresh automated hinting are applied to the result.
Now, I don't know a lot about the gory details of typography, but I do know that type designers spend a lot of time thinking about things like "appropriate size and scale" and other metrics. Can these really be automatically recalculated from scratch and how can this possibly lead to a better result?
- michaelmior 13y agoI can't imagine that it would do better than carefully designed and hinted font. But I doubt such care is given to all fonts.
- andyharl 13y agoThis is really the problem. Many fonts are poorly hinted and not designed with small sizes on a screen in mind.
- michaelmior 13y agoThat I will agree with. I highly doubt that Font Combiner could beat a font manually hinted by a trained fontographer though.
- DanBC 13y ago> I do know that type designers spend a lot of time thinking about things like "appropriate size and scale" and other metrics. Can these really be automatically recalculated from scratch and how can this possibly lead to a better result? Do most people really see any difference? (http://youtu.be/cISYzA36-ZY?t=1m25s http://youtu.be/cISYzA36-ZY?t=1m25s)