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Re: PS or TT? (aka cubic vs quadratic Bézier curves, or *.otf vs *.ttf)
It's not that “PS hinting is all in the rasterizer.” It is that the information in the font is a bit sketchy and general. PS hinting is informational: the rasterizer then decides what to do with…1 -
Re: Font Licensing Rabbit Hole
Heh. I assumed he meant just that particular clause of the license. :)1 -
Re: TTF vs. OTF on older Android
Certainly. What those cases are depends on the outlines, the rasterizer, AND the hinting. Life is complicated. In those environments where hinting matters at all, usually, yes. As long as the hintin…1 -
Re: Ogonek Positioning - Heavy Capital A
Lowercase l-slash looks super low to me. General practice is to put it visually centered (top to bottom). Tomaszewski (more controversially) suggests even higher, centered relative to the bar of the …3 -
Re: TTF vs. OTF on older Android
“Always”? No, not at all. There are a few environments where that might be true. Notably, rendering in certain versions of Windows, using ClearType, in the era when Windows only applied ClearType to …2
