On 2012-10-17 2:31 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
What would be interesting is if we could enable an autohinter in Firefox
and use that in cases when we are sent a font which doesn't contain hints
(is the performance overhead, if any, acceptable?)
I don't have numbers, but I run my Linux desktop with Pango set to
ignore in-font hints and apply only autohinter-generated vertical
hinting (because I find the fonts more legible this way) and it seems
acceptably fast to me.
I'd also rather like to have the ability to control hinting operations
from page CSS -- for instance, the aforementioned fonts for which
Freetype autohinting does a bad job tend to look better if you tell it
not to apply hints at all.
We could then support a format("woff-autohint") which would allow pages to
send a smaller unhinted font file to browsers which support autohinting and
a larger file to browsers that don't.
Google Web Fonts appears to do this server-side already (see discussion
in bug 741963).
zw
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