Re: Font rendering question - unifont-14.0.04.ttf

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Over at Python Pillow, we've had a user raise an issue about the way
> that Pillow is rendering characters from unifont-14.0.04.ttf -
> https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/issues/6421.  I took a look,
> and concluded that Pillow wasn't doing anything special, but just
> showing what our dependency, FreeType, was returning.
> 
> The user then opened an issue with FreeType -
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/-/issues/1171.  The
> Gitlab FreeType users concluded that FreeType was working correctly,
> and that this is simply how the font behaves. They suggested
> contacting a mailing list for further information.
> 
> If you have some time, and are so inclined, it would be nice if you
> were to look over
> https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/issues/6421 and provide any
> thoughts you might have.

It's not clear what I could add to the comment I gave in FreeType
issue #1171.  Rendering with hinting & mono is simply broken with this
font.  Perhaps you can do mono rendering without hinting as a
work-around.


    Werner