Hinting options are rather font dependent. The old free fonts for CJK usually do not have proper hinting embedded so certain specific tweaks (ex. auto hint) are needed to avoid faint strokes. The draw backs are the spaces between strokes may be significantly changed for small size glyphs. It would not be a good idea to just apply the old settings to Noto fonts I think. To me unless something is really broken due to this, it's better leave as it is.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to language-selector in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1581160 Title: Switch to Noto Sans as default font for Japanese and/or Korean? Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: In Ubuntu 16.04 Noto Sans CJK is the default font for rendering Chinese. After having struggled with a few issues, I believe that we finally achieved the desired improvement of the rendering experience. So now I ask: Is there an interest from Japanese and Korean users to consider a switch to Noto Sans? (The fonts are already installed for all users on Ubuntu 16.04.) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/+bug/1581160/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
