Re: Hinting regression in Ubuntu 23.04

[James Cloos]

>>>>> "C" == Craig  <edfardos@gmail.com> writes:

C> I'm curious if they have motivation to make bad fonts with no
C> hinting?  does it somehow help when/if anti-aliasing is turned on?

i presume that the motivation is that:

werner's ttfautohint, which uses the same code as freetype, is the
only floss option to add automated instructions to a sfnt.

hiring someone to do manual instructing is expensive(!) and modern
monitors tend to have enough pixel density that unhinted or autohinted
grayscale looks fine.

-JimC
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