Is type hinting for screens still relevant? Should new type designers learn it?
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@Mike Duggan
Thinking about VF and ideographs, it is almost impossible to hint a variable CJK font satisifies the “screen display quality”. You know how complex they are. Ideographs seldom share positions and stroke (stem) widths among characters, so the `cvar` mechanism cannot be used in this situation.-1 -
What are the URLs for those screenshots?Mike Duggan said:Worse than no hinting, is bad autohinting.0
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Hi Dave, am travelling this week, I can try find the urls if you really need them? The BBC culture site should be easy enough to find1
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Here's what Superclarendon's web hinting is supposed to look like (click the web font demo tab).
https://www.fontspring.com/fonts/typodermic/super-clarendon/super-clarendon-light#fontface
https://www.fontspring.com/fonts/typodermic/super-clarendon/super-clarendon-regular#fontface
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Book of Kells look very decent on android chrome - maybe the problem is windows or MSIE :-)
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Seeing the largest platform as "the problem" is anti-design.
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Hi Ray, thanks, it looks a lot better there. I have been working with MyFonts on getting improved autohinting, and they have made a lot of improvements lately, using TTFAutohint, for many fonts. it seems they didn't get to update Superclarendon1
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Book of Kells look very decent on android chrome - maybe the problem is windows or MSIE :-)
Do you guys know how Android handles hinting? I was told it ignores hinting instructions most of the times... If so, the problem comes from Curious Sans. I checked the link on Win10 Chrome, MSIE, Firefox and Edge and the problem is consistent among these. Pic below is from Chrome.
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It is from an android phone.Mike Duggan said:0 -
yes ok, thanks, so I assume its higher resolution, which may or not be using the hinting in Android. so the problem exists in the hints.1
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Mike Duggan said:Hi Ray, thanks, it looks a lot better there. I have been working with MyFonts on getting improved autohinting, and they have made a lot of improvements lately, using TTFAutohint, for many fonts. it seems they didn't get to update Superclarendon
Aha, so this badness is the result either a non-ttfa autohinter, or, an old ttfa? Thanks for sharing the links!!
Please could you ask the MyFonts person to drop me a private email, I'd like to discuss
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