I have manually hinted a font in FontLab. Webfonts generated with Fontprep and FontSquirrel render gorgeously with DirectWrite in Firefox but in Internet Explorer 11 I’m getting GDI Cleartype text, which isn’t acceptable in this font because the outlines are distressed. Are there instructions for getting a good (for IE) webfont out of a TTF hinted and generated with Fontlab?
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I might still be doing it wrong somewhere else, but, 90% of the font-to-web workflow is a hack anyway.
A comparison shot is attached. IE 11 is on the left, Firefox 26.0 is on the right. This is a distressed display font that has some basic hinting to keep pixels from popping out all over the place, so a good deal of wonkiness is expected. But the “32 points” line shows things going really wrong, with letters even crashing horizontally.
Is there a way to set the GASP header to enable Cleartype in Fontlab? It’s not enabled in the TTF right out of Fontlab or Fontprep. But Fontsquirrel and Transtype fix it. At least that’s what I see when I open the fonts with Openmaster
Is there a way to dump an file with TTX?
I used ttf2eot to generate and EOT file from the Fontlab TTF file. The results are unchanged.
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