Either they are set wrongly (lesser than overshoots check in PS Private), or there are no hints controlling overshoots (check these letters). Looks like they're not affected by BlueValues/OtherBlues.Some letters are fuzzy at baseline and/or X-height in some sizes! (this problem is visible only in antialiased mode, in medium ppem ranges in monochrome rendering, these letters may be vertically offset).Looks like BlueScale in PS Private dictionary should be somewhat larger than default 0.03.Letters are fuzzy at baseline and/or X-height in some sizes! (this problem is visible only in antialiased mode, in medium ppem ranges).Save the font as a separate sfd - it most probably will need tuning.Īfter generating the font, there surely will be some noticeable errors.Repeating steps 4, 5 and 6 can occassionaly produce more coherent PS hints.It's usually enough to copy them from most regular font variant in the family, from Blues and OtherBlues entries. FontForge also supports FamilyBlues and FamilyOtherBlues, but these need to be hand-created if needed.In Element -> FontInfo -> PS Private, add these entries (FF will provide default values): BlueValues, OtherBlues, StemSnapH, StdHW, StemSnapV and StdVW.In Settings -> PS Hinting, turn diagonal hinting on.Make sure your foreground layer contains quadratic splines, not cubic.Learn a bit (or better a lot) about PostScript and Truetype hinting.Very basic hintingįontForge needs font to be hinted with the PostScript means to produce Work, and how they can be tweaked to give desired results. Pieces of information, that explain font-level and glyph-level hints, how they Is somewhat affected by current fashion.). Some various types of hinting seen today (how hinted font is expected to look Then it summarises some commonĮrrors in auto instructed fonts, and how to circumvent them. Procedure to produce auto instructed font. The purpose of this document is to help FontForge user to get familiar withĪutomatic instructing (hinting) of TrueType fonts. Also, it reflects knowledge and point of view of
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