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Check rendering of Thin caps #38

Closed djrrb closed 1 year ago

djrrb commented 1 year ago

@lyubomir-popov reported an unfortunate difference between UC and LC in the Thin weight:

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Edit: Lyubo sent specs for the above shot:

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Browser - Chrome latest 100% zoom, yes 4k screen, so yes high dpi Font smoothing is on, didn't see any difference when I disabled it. I'll try to run the site locally on the new variable font beta 0.861 and report back.

Here is what I see on my end:

Mac OS

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Win 10 Edge

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Reminder to test this and see if it persists in VF and newly autohinted static fonts

guidoferreyra commented 1 year ago

I will post some screenshots of the current font rendering on Windows.

guidoferreyra commented 1 year ago

A few screenshots of the VFs taken on Windows 11 at 96 ppi. Ubuntu VFs doesn’t includes hinting data, unless the fonts are manually hinted avoiding TTFAutohinting is the best option.

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glenda-tn commented 1 year ago

it should be auto-hinted at the very least.

guidoferreyra commented 1 year ago

Autohinting on VFs doesn’t work really well, specially on really light instances.

glenda-tn commented 1 year ago

hmm. Then I would recommend VTT hinting.

djrrb commented 1 year ago

Thanks Guido! Well the good news is that I don’t think we’re seeing the same cap vs. lowercase weight difference that Lyubo did in the original screenshot.

Will leave this open until we can see if the VF changes things in Lyubo’s particular setup.

We discussed VTT hinting while scoping the project and decided it wasn’t necessary. Static fonts will use ttfautohint as is common practice.

djrrb commented 1 year ago

Can’t replicate, closing. Lyubo can reopen if it reappears.