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RedHatOfficial / Overpass

Overpass open source web font family — Sponsored by Red Hat
http://overpassfont.org
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Hinting could be improved with ttfautohint #5

Closed codeman38 closed 8 years ago

codeman38 commented 9 years ago

The hinting in the current release of the fonts is rather ugly on systems where bytecode hinting is enabled (e.g., Freetype 2.4+ with fontconfig set to 'medium' or 'full' hint style). This is especially noticeable in the Italic styles-- note the ridiculously inconsistent line widths in the screencap below:

overpass-bad-hinting

For comparison, here's what the font looks like after running ttfautohint on it:

overpass-italic-autohint

DelveFonts commented 9 years ago

Yikes! Yes, there is definitely room for improvement there. Thank you for bringing this to our attention codeman38.

andyfitzsuse commented 9 years ago

eww, this is why I leave freetype hinting off on all my Fedora machines.
It's a scary dark art. But thanks for the insight @codeman38 I forgot how awesome TTF autohint is nowadays.

@DelveFonts are we happy to accept any change that has TTF autohint run on it?

DelveFonts commented 9 years ago

@andyfitz Yes, any but the Regular and Bold. Those two have hand-edited hints applied.

davelab6 commented 8 years ago

@DelveFonts have you checked out the ttfautohint 'overrides' feature? Jasper de Waarde posted a video in http://typedrawers.com/discussion/1143/how-to-use-ttfautohint

andyfitzsuse commented 8 years ago

This has been done thanks @jimmac