Re: [ft-devel] Autohinter: stem darkening, first rough prototype

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> But we are now constrained by compatibility.

Well, it was the simplest solution to stay with the original code
then.

>> By the way, the current default (Adobe and FreeType) for CFF can be
>> expressed as 400,275,275 (y1,y2,y3).
>> For comparison, the reduced darkening for TT (in Adobe's product) is
>> 300,250,250.
> 
> It boils down to just two important values: one for vanishing stems
> below 0.5 pixels, one for about 1.5-pixel stems.  I wish we had only
> two values in the config file.

We can simply recommend how to derive all parameters from two leading
numbers.


    Werner