Re: [ft-devel] Taming CFF_CONFIG_OPTION_DARKENING_PARAMETER_Y* for a gamma of ~2.2/sRGB?

[Alexei Podtelezhnikov]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Behdad Esfahbod
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 15-08-25 03:29 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>>
>> On the other hand: How many recent fonts in the wild have such
>> misformed glyphs?
>
> I saw one when developing GLyphy.  Note that these are valid fonts according
> to TrueType spec.  They just don't follow the "recommended" outline winding...
>
> Perhaps it's ok to ignore these.  Just something to know is possible.

For the record, Windows 7 rejects this font. If this mistake was made
in the letter 'O' it wold not be rendered correctly by FreeType. So
this glyph *happens* to render correctly just because the outlines are
not nested. Testing for this is easier said than done. It easier to
fix the font.