On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 3:03 PM Salim B wrote: > The FiraCode author explicitly states[1]: > > > I think at some point OTF was superior to TTF, but now they are mostly the > > same. The difference between OTF and TTF is that TTF can embed hinting > > instructions, which are essential for rendering on low-res displays. > > Therefore I think it would *really* make sense to switch to the TTF variant > of the font since it's mainly intended for "on-screen" usage anyway (in > contrast to print) and thus sharp rendering is very important.
Pango/HarfBuzz is dropping support for low-res displays and hinting so I'm not sure how useful this is. https://lwn.net/Articles/821016/ https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=HarfBuzz-Hinting-Woe https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/issues/463 https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/2394 -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
