TTF vs OTF on Windows without smoothing

adobe-fonts / source-sans

Sans serif font family for user interface environments

https://adobe-fonts.github.io/source-sans

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TTF vs OTF on Windows without smoothing #260

Open maa7 opened 1 year ago

maa7 commented 1 year ago

Hello, On Windows with smoothing disabled, the OTF version of the font at small sizes looks much better than the TTF version. Is it possible to make the TTF version as good as the OTF? ss3_ttf_otf

pauldhunt commented 1 year ago

@maa7 Why can’t you just use the OTF font if it performs better?

maa7 commented 1 year ago

Many web designers don't know about this and continue to use woff2(ttf) instead of woff2(otf). For many people, the reason why ttf looks worse is not clear.

pauldhunt commented 10 months ago

The initial versions of Source Sans had finely hinted TTFs. Is it possible to use one of these earlier versions for your purposes? I’m not sure when we will invest in hinting TTF versions again.