Hi Alexei, Yeah, we were aware of alpha blending upto an extent probably we were not aware of the terminologies. Anyway we are trying to blend the edge (font in a different color) and the font in our code. Thanks for the inputs.
Tx Sagar On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 6:18 PM Alexei Podtelezhnikov <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 8:28 AM Aurovind Sagar <[email protected]> wrote: > > We are using FreeType. Sorry, the intention was not to report any bug. > We are looking for suggestions. We are not from graphics background, hence > please excuse if we have asked any obvious questions. > > Guys, you need to learn about alpha blending. In the simplest terms: a > glyph bitmap is colorless but rather gives you a proportion of brush > and background colors: zeros mean that background is unchanged, 255 > means it turns into purely brush color, something in between is a mix of > colors. Then you just apply several layers like this: shade first, > filled body second, outline third. >
