Hi Alexei,

We resolved the issue by taking care of the alpha value. Thanks for your
help and inputs.

Thanks
Sagar

On Mon, 8 Jun 2020 at 1:57 PM, Aurovind Sagar <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>

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