[Fontconfig] FreeType now includes Infinality subpixel support

Raimund Steger
Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:33:56 -0000

Hi,


Infinality wrote:
> [...]
>
> The choices you get in Windows (as far as I know) are to have Cleartype
> on or off. In fontconfig this would correspond to the below

Windows has another option that disables AA for those erroneous cases
that you mentioned (mostly, the MS Web Fonts at low pixel sizes), and
uses grid-aligned grayscale AA otherwise, but no ClearType. This used to
be the only AA setting before ClearType was introduced (up until Windows
2000), and it is still supported at least in Windows 7, although some
newer Microsoft applications ignore it. It''s what I use and have also
configured in fontconfig, with the slight alteration that I don''t use
grid alignment.
(But since it will likely still be possible to use such a configuration,
I see no issue whatsoever.)

Raimund



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