Re: [ft-devel] A review of ttfauthint by designer of Siri

[vernon adams]

On 09/02/12 20:49, vernon adams wrote:
> It's allways been noticeable to me that when i manually hint fonts on
> Windows GDI, the font at small pt sizes renders on Freetype sytems with
> the x-height and Caps height lower than under Windows GDI. Therefore it
> makes sense that the reverse happens when we put 'freetype-hinted' fonts
> onto GDI Windows - they look too tall. In my opinion ttfautohint needs
> to use freetype libs that snap x-height and caps-heights lower than the
> standard freetype autohinter. Does that make sense?
>
> -vern

For screenshots example of this see "Oxygen Font – Manual Hinting versus 
the Freetype2 Autohinter" at http://code.newtypography.co.uk.

Freetype2 renders the 'native' Oxygen font at correct heights, but 
renders the manually hinted version not tall enough.
-v