>> > FreeType simply provides *colorless* coverage map, i.e., fraction of >> > each pixel covered by an outline. This coverage is a proportion of a >> > text color to be mixed/blended with a surface color. It is just a >> > proportion, it is never transformed. >> >> Perfect thanks, this is exactly what I expected/meant; sorry for my >> imprecise description :D > > You got it the first time. Even LCD maps are still just coverage maps for each > color channel separately. ClearType filtering or Harmony shifting ensures that > each color channel has the same *integral* coverage to avoid color fringes in > thin features - cut all the crap about visual perception.
Thanks so much for clarifying this -- I haven't given gamma correction in combination with FreeType too much thought on a technical level before Veeki's GSoC project; I think I'm all caught up now :) _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
