[Fontconfig] FreeType now includes Infinality subpixel support

Infinality
Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:13:33 -0000

Interesting....  I was aware that "Font Smoothing" in Windows 95/98
would do native TT hinting and AA (at least on bold fonts), but I
wasn''t
aware it was even possible to do that on any Windows afterwards.   (And
in fact I thought everyone had forgotten about it.  ;)  )


On 06/20/2012 05:33 PM, Raimund Steger wrote:
> Hi,
>
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> 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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