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Re:Libschrift: A lightweight TrueType font rendering library by montroser on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @06:41AM (#22933694)
We are finally in the future where hidpi displays mostly make hinting unnecessary.

Even before now, hinting has been a highly questionable pursuit. I believe Freetype enabling its autohinter by default has led to ~20 years of most free software having tortured, ugly misshapen text.

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Re:Libschrift: A lightweight TrueType font rendering library by Someone on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @07:16AM (#22933860)
I don’t think you can blame TrueType’s hinting for problems with FreeType’s autohinter, which was created specifically as a patent-free replacement for TrueType’s hinting (https://www.freetype.org/autohinting/hinter.html)
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Re:Libschrift: A lightweight TrueType font rendering library by montroser on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @08:03AM (#22934136)
The autohinter was a noble attempt, and in some cases it eventually did a passable job. But enabling it by default is the part that I think might have been a mistake.
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