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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Sep 2017
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OS: Chrome
Pri: 3
Type: Bug



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Change the hint setting for Noto (hinted) and Roboto to hint_slight

Project Member Reported by js...@chromium.org, Aug 30 2016

Issue description

Noto (hinted) and Roboto are hinted in such a way that horizontal stems are grid-fitted while vertical stems are left alone to be faithful the original outline. (similar to light-auto-hint mode). 

Recent versions of FreeType now work with 'hinting=true, hintstyle=hintslight'.  

How Blink/Skia treats that setting needs to be checked, though. 

 

Comment 1 by derat@chromium.org, Aug 31 2016

This is what we're using right now (from third_party/chromiumos-overlay/media-libs/fontconfig/files/local.conf), right?

  <match target="font">
    <test name="noto_hinted"><bool>true</bool></test>
    <edit name="hinting" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
    <edit name="autohint" mode="assign"><bool>false</bool></edit>
    <edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign"><const>hintfull</const></edit>
    <edit name="antialias" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
  </match>

  <!-- Roboto is BCI-hinted for widely used LGC characters -->
  <match target="font">
    <test name="family"><string>Roboto</string></test>
    <edit name="hinting" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
    <edit name="autohint" mode="assign"><bool>false</bool></edit>
    <edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign"><const>hintfull</const></edit>
    <edit name="antialias" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
  </match>

Is the proposed change just switching hintstyle from hintfull to hintslight? Are there before-and-after screenshots?

And is there any relation to  issue 633377  ("Repeated Arial/Arimo 'f' characters are ugly due to subpixel positioning")? Does this have a risk of causing a similar issue for Noto (hinted) and Roboto?

Comment 2 by e...@chromium.org, Sep 13 2016

Status: Available (was: Untriaged)
Let's give it a try.
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Comment 3 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Sep 13 2017

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Status: Untriaged (was: Available)
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Comment 4 by e...@chromium.org, Sep 13 2017

Status: WontFix (was: Untriaged)
Obsolete given recent FreeType changes.

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