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strange hinting on freesans and freeserif |
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Fri, 6 Jan 2006 16:54:23 -0500 |
Hello,
I am emailing you in hopes that you can help me understand a problem I
am having with the Free UCS Outline Fonts
(http://www.nongnu.org/freefont), because I found you in the list of
developpers on http://savannah.nongnu.org/project/memberlist.php?group=freefont
I am a regular user of the FreeSans and FreeSerif fonts, but an issue
occured to me today as I was creating a screenshot for abiword: those
fonts seem to "bleed colors" for a reason nobody could explain to me
yet. I generally had answers such as "your font smoothing/subpixel
hinting preferences are not set properly", however, I am using a LCD
screen, and everything else is perfectly crisp while aliased. I have
noticed this on every other computer I used (that means CRT screens),
and I have seen the same results. Please see the attachment "color
bleeding.png".
I had other suggestions like "well, just use the Microsoft fonts if
you are not happy". I believe that Free* are in every way superior,
they look good, and they are open, and I do not wish to be locked to
use closed fonts while there is this great alternative available.
What could be the cause of this "unreadability" on my screens?
Also, see comparison.png as a proof that my setup is "normal".
Best regards,
Jeff Fortin
color bleeding.png
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comparison.png
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