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

[Ken Lunde]

Dave,

Apologies for misunderstanding the reference to my fonts. The presence of "CFF" in your statement was the reason.

In any case, the nature of the CFF2-based fonts that I did build didn't benefit from careful hinting, hence the lack of appropriate hinting parameters. In other words, I cannot comment of CFF2 hinting.

Regards...

-- Ken

> On Sep 16, 2020, at 17:00, Dave Crossland <dcrossland at google.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Sep 16, 2020, 7:53 PM Ken Lunde <ken.lunde at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dave,
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> You wrote:
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> >>> Haha, awesome!
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> >>> I must admit my ignorance with regards to CFF2, but, isn't one of the major features of CFF2 that hints can vary? 
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> >> Major in what way? Yes, CFF2 hints can vary. Also yes, TT-based varfonts' hints can also vary.
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> > 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.
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> The fonts for the three Source Han typeface families that I architected and built 
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> Sorry Ken, I meant only those fonts you made and described earlier in this thread, not your complete oeuvre :)