@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.
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
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.
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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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.
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160425-the-book-of-kells-medieval-europes-greatest-treasure
https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/browse?sort=published_at_desc
https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/typodermic/superclarendon/webfont_preview.html
https://www.fontspring.com/fonts/typodermic/super-clarendon/super-clarendon-light#fontface
https://www.fontspring.com/fonts/typodermic/super-clarendon/super-clarendon-regular#fontface
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.
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