[MPEG-OTSPEC] Hints, TT and CFF (was: Re: Proposal to make OFF complete)

Dave Crossland dcrossland at google.com
Thu Sep 17 02:00:52 CEST 2020


On Wed, Sep 16, 2020, 7:53 PM Ken Lunde <ken.lunde at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dave,
>
> You wrote:
>
> >>> Haha, awesome!
> >>>
> >>> I must admit my ignorance with regards to CFF2, but, isn't one of the
> major features of CFF2 that hints can vary?
> >>
> >> Major in what way? Yes, CFF2 hints can vary. Also yes, TT-based
> varfonts' hints can also vary.
> >
> > Major in that Ken's fonts don't take advantage of it, and yet a
> "business case" for CFF and CFF2 that I've heard is that rendering is
> superior because of the hinting model.
>
> The fonts for the three Source Han typeface families that I architected
> and built
>

Sorry Ken, I meant only those fonts you made and described earlier in this
thread, not your complete oeuvre :)

>
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