You can subscribe to this list here.
2004 |
Jan
|
Feb
|
Mar
|
Apr
|
May
|
Jun
(1) |
Jul
(1) |
Aug
(5) |
Sep
|
Oct
(39) |
Nov
(62) |
Dec
(41) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2005 |
Jan
(106) |
Feb
(39) |
Mar
(44) |
Apr
(25) |
May
(74) |
Jun
(48) |
Jul
(107) |
Aug
(189) |
Sep
(83) |
Oct
(128) |
Nov
(145) |
Dec
(119) |
2006 |
Jan
(212) |
Feb
(104) |
Mar
(332) |
Apr
(237) |
May
(113) |
Jun
(162) |
Jul
(142) |
Aug
(78) |
Sep
(47) |
Oct
(35) |
Nov
(96) |
Dec
(65) |
2007 |
Jan
(68) |
Feb
(41) |
Mar
(85) |
Apr
(44) |
May
(37) |
Jun
(30) |
Jul
(18) |
Aug
(31) |
Sep
(31) |
Oct
(43) |
Nov
(33) |
Dec
(57) |
2008 |
Jan
(14) |
Feb
(23) |
Mar
(65) |
Apr
(23) |
May
(34) |
Jun
(30) |
Jul
(57) |
Aug
(1) |
Sep
(4) |
Oct
(14) |
Nov
(31) |
Dec
(6) |
2009 |
Jan
(8) |
Feb
(39) |
Mar
(36) |
Apr
(7) |
May
(7) |
Jun
(3) |
Jul
(6) |
Aug
(20) |
Sep
(18) |
Oct
(26) |
Nov
(6) |
Dec
(2) |
2010 |
Jan
|
Feb
(8) |
Mar
(5) |
Apr
|
May
(4) |
Jun
(29) |
Jul
(9) |
Aug
(25) |
Sep
(18) |
Oct
(27) |
Nov
(31) |
Dec
(11) |
2011 |
Jan
(8) |
Feb
(22) |
Mar
(11) |
Apr
(6) |
May
(7) |
Jun
(10) |
Jul
(1) |
Aug
(6) |
Sep
(3) |
Oct
(1) |
Nov
(10) |
Dec
(1) |
2012 |
Jan
(2) |
Feb
(1) |
Mar
(3) |
Apr
(2) |
May
(1) |
Jun
|
Jul
(7) |
Aug
(6) |
Sep
|
Oct
|
Nov
|
Dec
|
2013 |
Jan
(1) |
Feb
|
Mar
(1) |
Apr
(2) |
May
(5) |
Jun
(4) |
Jul
(5) |
Aug
(24) |
Sep
(2) |
Oct
|
Nov
(21) |
Dec
(3) |
2014 |
Jan
|
Feb
|
Mar
(19) |
Apr
(2) |
May
(2) |
Jun
(2) |
Jul
(5) |
Aug
(6) |
Sep
(22) |
Oct
|
Nov
(6) |
Dec
(7) |
2015 |
Jan
(1) |
Feb
(12) |
Mar
(6) |
Apr
(1) |
May
(31) |
Jun
|
Jul
(2) |
Aug
(6) |
Sep
|
Oct
|
Nov
|
Dec
(2) |
2016 |
Jan
(7) |
Feb
|
Mar
(6) |
Apr
(1) |
May
|
Jun
(9) |
Jul
(7) |
Aug
(1) |
Sep
(1) |
Oct
|
Nov
|
Dec
|
2017 |
Jan
|
Feb
|
Mar
|
Apr
|
May
|
Jun
(1) |
Jul
|
Aug
|
Sep
|
Oct
|
Nov
|
Dec
|
2018 |
Jan
|
Feb
|
Mar
|
Apr
|
May
|
Jun
|
Jul
|
Aug
|
Sep
(1) |
Oct
|
Nov
|
Dec
|
2019 |
Jan
|
Feb
(1) |
Mar
|
Apr
|
May
(1) |
Jun
|
Jul
|
Aug
|
Sep
|
Oct
|
Nov
|
Dec
|
From: Denis J. <mo...@gm...> - 2019-05-24 19:50:34
|
Hi, U+0311 is already in DejaVu Sans, DejaVu Serif and in DejaVu Sans Mono. Cheers On Fri, 24 May 2019 at 19:16, a swalleh <asw...@ho...> wrote: > Hi > I would be most grateful if you could add character 0311 to dejavu serif > and sans even if it is a blank space for the moment, pending a proper one > It will be most helpful. > > Thanks > Aswalleh > > > Sent from my iPhone -- Denis Moyogo Jacquerye |
From: Florian W. <flo...@gm...> - 2019-02-14 22:32:01
|
Hello, can I use the Deja Vu Sans Mono font freely and for commercial purposes? Florian |
From: Florian W. <flo...@gm...> - 2018-09-22 20:09:10
|
Hello, I wanted to ask if I can use the Deja Vu Sans Mono font in video courses commercialy and on my personal logo. If I understand the license correctly, I am allowed to use the font commercially, if I provide the license together with it. But this is only really applicable to software. I can't ship the license with my logo or videos. What should I do in this case? Florian |
From: a s. <asw...@ho...> - 2017-06-12 21:07:54
|
Dear All, I would be grateful for the following characters in déjà-vu serif Condensed. U+2E35 turned semicolon U+0360 Combining double Tilde Thanks Aswalleh |
From: BPJ <bp...@me...> - 2016-09-22 15:42:14
|
Hi, I have a branch on GitHub where I have added some characters to Serif (regular and italic) to the best of my limited ability because I badly need them. Some questions: I have no illusions about the quality of my additions, and it is quite possible that I shall have to add more characters/glyphs to the PUA, so I guess the next thing to do is to rename the fonts. Are there any rules/conventions/schemes in place for such renaming? Is there anything I need to think of/be aware of when changing font names in Fontforge? Are the condensed variants built by a script, i.e. will I get those "for free"? I attach a patch, so if you like have a look at them and let me know if they have any merit at all, and I shall try to add those characters to Bold as well. I have added the following characters ᵹ U+1D79 LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR G Ỿ U+1EFE LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH LOOP ỿ U+1EFF LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH LOOP Ꝺ U+A779 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER INSULAR D ꝺ U+A77A LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR D Ᵹ U+A77D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER INSULAR G Ꭓ U+A7B3 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER CHI Ꞵ U+A7B4 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER BETA ꞵ U+A7B5 LATIN SMALL LETTER BETA ꭓ U+AB53 LATIN SMALL LETTER CHI and a capital UE ligature at U+F003 (in the PUA) Thanks, /bpj |
From: Ron P. <ron...@gm...> - 2016-08-23 07:14:48
|
Hi, and thank you for this wonderful project. When I open an SFD file and immediately save it in FontForge (a recent version from April 2016), a lot of changes are made to the file, even after running `make pre-patch`. Most of them are whitespace changes (whitespace removed from the end of lines, etc.), but some look like > -- -139 1804 l 17,0,0 > ++ -139 1804 l 1041,0,0 > > or > -- 141 -632 l 17 > ++ 141 -632 l 1041 Is that OK? Does make pre-patch need to be changed to accommodate changes in FontForge? Ron |
From: Ben L. <ben...@gm...> - 2016-07-30 11:01:58
|
Hi everyone, To fix the issue with the empty condensed typefaces, a new 2.37 release is available for download at SourceForge https://sourceforge.net/projects/dejavu/files/dejavu/2.37/ or on Github https://github.com/dejavu-fonts/dejavu-fonts/releases/tag/version_2_37 Let's hope everything went well this time :-) Greetings, Ben |
From: Ben L. <ben...@gm...> - 2016-07-26 11:51:50
|
Hi everyone, There has been an error in the uploaded source file for the 2.36 release. The condensed typefaces all have empty glyphs, so if you're using those to build the ttf files, you get blank text when using a condensed typeface. The released files with the already built ttf fonts are correct, and it's those that most people download and use who directly download from us, but if you're building from source, you'll get into this problems. This means though that many package repositories for Linux distros will get affected, as shown in the bug report at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97081 We're going to make a new release shortly to get the correct files out. Depending on time contstraints, the new release should be out this weekend at the latest. Until the new release has happened, the repositories will be frozen again. Ben |
From: DerDanie <der...@me...> - 2016-07-18 12:22:11
|
Hello together, I have a question regarding a bug in the current release of Adobe Reader DC (further information can be found here https://forums.adobe.com/message/8878443) We create PDFs in our software and are using the DejaVu Sans Condensed font. Regarding to your copyright information, it is not allowed to modify the font without changing its name. Is it possible to save the font with Type light, as the workaround suggests, or would this be a violation of the copyright rules? Greetings, Daniel |
From: Frédéric W. <fre...@fr...> - 2016-07-15 08:40:33
|
Great! I just closed https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90087 BTW, I was wondering if this bugzilla tracker is still supposed to be used or if we moved to GitHub issues? Thanks, Le 15/07/2016 à 00:22, Denis Jacquerye a écrit : > Hi all, > > The version 2.36 release is available on Sourceforge > at https://sourceforge.net/projects/dejavu/files/dejavu/ > and GitHub at https://github.com/dejavu-fonts/dejavu-fonts/releases > > This release includes several small additions, including some currency > symbols, a few fixes, and also a new Math font. See the summary on the > download page or in the NEWS file for details. > > Big thanks to all the contributors and everybody who helped on this > release! > > Cheers |
From: Denis J. <mo...@gm...> - 2016-07-14 22:22:18
|
Hi all, The version 2.36 release is available on Sourceforge at https://sourceforge.net/projects/dejavu/files/dejavu/ and GitHub at https://github.com/dejavu-fonts/dejavu-fonts/releases This release includes several small additions, including some currency symbols, a few fixes, and also a new Math font. See the summary on the download page or in the NEWS file for details. Big thanks to all the contributors and everybody who helped on this release! Cheers |
From: Denis J. <mo...@gm...> - 2016-07-14 07:22:34
|
Hi Frédéric, Sorry I couldn’t do this earlier. The release is almost done, there just a minor fix to be done on the status files generation. That should be done later today. Cheers, On Tue, 12 Jul 2016 at 18:44 Frédéric WANG <fre...@fr...> wrote: > Hi Denis, > > Any update on the release? I only see version 2.35 here: > > https://github.com/dejavu-fonts/dejavu-fonts/releases > > Le 28/06/2016 à 09:39, Denis Jacquerye a écrit : > > Hi all, > > > > There’ a freeze on the repository. There will be a release next week. > > > > Cheers, > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and > traffic > patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols > are > consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, > J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity > planning > reports.http://sdm.link/zohodev2dev > _______________________________________________ > DejaVu-fonts mailing list > Dej...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dejavu-fonts > |
From: Frédéric W. <fre...@fr...> - 2016-07-12 17:43:47
|
Hi Denis, Any update on the release? I only see version 2.35 here: https://github.com/dejavu-fonts/dejavu-fonts/releases Le 28/06/2016 à 09:39, Denis Jacquerye a écrit : > Hi all, > > There’ a freeze on the repository. There will be a release next week. > > Cheers, |
From: Denis J. <mo...@gm...> - 2016-06-28 07:39:19
|
Hi all, There’ a freeze on the repository. There will be a release next week. Cheers, |
From: Nikolaus W. <mad...@gm...> - 2016-06-20 20:00:24
|
I don't think you will have much luck there. To generate proper condensed fonts in multiple weights, you need to manually draw *all* endpoints before you can interpolate between them *and* keep them compatible so that the math works out. This is a huge undertaking for something like the DejaVu family that amounts to slightly less than a redesign and there are no open production ready tools to make it workable. There are tools, but you need a good understanding of the font production process and endure cumbersome workflows to make use of them. Metapolator is something of a tech demo. |
From: Giacomo T. <gi...@te...> - 2016-06-20 08:19:34
|
Hi Denis, thanks for your reply! I've played a bit with FontForge and I supposed that the solution was something related to either Change Weight or Change Glyphs. In particular with Change Gliphs I managed to get something... but still not what I want... Do you think that this approach lead to a dead end? Also, looking for a extrapolation tutorial "for dummy", I've found Metapolator: do you think it might help? I'm pretty new to font design tools and terminology, thus please excuse me for my ignorance... Giacomo 2016-06-19 15:59 GMT+02:00 Denis Jacquerye <mo...@gm...>: > Hi Giacomo, > > Generating a DejaVu Mono ExtraLight from other weights is possible through > extrapolation. > However there are two issues with doing this: > 1. DejaVu Mono Regular and DejaVu Mono Bold are currently not compatible > (meaning a glyph in one weight is composed of a different number of points > in another weight), so interpolation and extrapolation will not work for > many glyphs. > 2. Extrapolation is trickier than interpolation and would probably require > many adjustments, this is because extrapolation might generated undesired > distortions. > > That being said, the various weights could be modified to be compatible > for interpolation and an extrapolated DejaVu Mono Light could be manually > fixed and tweaked. If extrapolation give a general good result another > option is also to only have light glyphs for the problematic glyphs. > > Cheers, > > > > On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 at 11:15 Giacomo Tesio <gi...@te...> wrote: > >> Hello DejaVu team, and thanks for your hard work on this wonderful font. >> >> I'm trying to customize DejaVu Sans Mono to meet a few requirements for a >> programming font, that no of the alternatives I've tried seem to satisfy. >> >> Indeed I need a font that >> >> - is easy to read, even for source code (like DejaVu Sans Mono) >> - has a good support for unicode >> - is monospaced so that it's easy to do rectangular selections of >> text (like DejaVu Sans Mono) >> - is light weighted (like DejaVu Sans ExtraLight) >> - is narrow to allow more text per line (like DejaVu Sans Condensed) >> >> To summarize what I want is a sort of "DejaVu Sans Mono ExtraLight >> Condensed". >> >> Following the steps described at >> https://gist.github.com/anonymous/d34c76b2564fad6d216c I managed to >> produce a condensed variant of DejaVu Sans Mono. >> Also I've read on the archive of this mailing list ( >> https://sourceforge.net/p/dejavu/mailman/message/8696989/ ) >> <https://sourceforge.net/p/dejavu/mailman/message/8697283/> that it is >> possible to generate the ExtraLight variant programmatically from an >> existing .sfd, but how? >> >> >> Giacomo >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and >> traffic >> patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols >> are >> consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, >> J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity >> planning >> reports. http://sdm.link/zohomanageengine >> _______________________________________________ >> DejaVu-fonts mailing list >> Dej...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dejavu-fonts >> > |
From: Denis J. <mo...@gm...> - 2016-06-19 13:59:23
|
Hi Giacomo, Generating a DejaVu Mono ExtraLight from other weights is possible through extrapolation. However there are two issues with doing this: 1. DejaVu Mono Regular and DejaVu Mono Bold are currently not compatible (meaning a glyph in one weight is composed of a different number of points in another weight), so interpolation and extrapolation will not work for many glyphs. 2. Extrapolation is trickier than interpolation and would probably require many adjustments, this is because extrapolation might generated undesired distortions. That being said, the various weights could be modified to be compatible for interpolation and an extrapolated DejaVu Mono Light could be manually fixed and tweaked. If extrapolation give a general good result another option is also to only have light glyphs for the problematic glyphs. Cheers, On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 at 11:15 Giacomo Tesio <gi...@te...> wrote: > Hello DejaVu team, and thanks for your hard work on this wonderful font. > > I'm trying to customize DejaVu Sans Mono to meet a few requirements for a > programming font, that no of the alternatives I've tried seem to satisfy. > > Indeed I need a font that > > - is easy to read, even for source code (like DejaVu Sans Mono) > - has a good support for unicode > - is monospaced so that it's easy to do rectangular selections of text > (like DejaVu Sans Mono) > - is light weighted (like DejaVu Sans ExtraLight) > - is narrow to allow more text per line (like DejaVu Sans Condensed) > > To summarize what I want is a sort of "DejaVu Sans Mono ExtraLight > Condensed". > > Following the steps described at > https://gist.github.com/anonymous/d34c76b2564fad6d216c I managed to > produce a condensed variant of DejaVu Sans Mono. > Also I've read on the archive of this mailing list ( > https://sourceforge.net/p/dejavu/mailman/message/8696989/ ) > <https://sourceforge.net/p/dejavu/mailman/message/8697283/> that it is > possible to generate the ExtraLight variant programmatically from an > existing .sfd, but how? > > > Giacomo > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and > traffic > patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols > are > consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, > J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity > planning > reports. http://sdm.link/zohomanageengine > _______________________________________________ > DejaVu-fonts mailing list > Dej...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dejavu-fonts > |
From: Frédéric W. <fre...@fr...> - 2016-06-19 13:07:36
|
Hi all, Congratulations and thank you to the GUST e-foundry group! Some time ago, I added a MATH table as well as some characters from the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block to the DejaVu Sans and DejaVu Serif fonts. I'd like to clarify that the serif math font made by the GUST e-foundry group is much more advanced than the minimal support I added. As a consequence, we can now certainly remove the MATH table from DejaVu Serif font. Some people suggested this table for DejaVu Sans too, so I'll let others decide whether they want to keep the MATH table for DejaVu Sans or not. Frédéric PS: I think we can also close https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90087 Le 19/06/2016 à 14:52, Denis Jacquerye a écrit : > Hi, > > There has been a major contribution from the TeX Gyre project. They > have made a math version of DejaVu Sans and have contributed it back > to us. > It is already available at > http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre-dejavu-math. > They have release it last month and we will release it in the next > version as DejaVu Math TeX Gyre. > > There will be a feature freeze on 25 June 2016 and the release will > take place on 2 July 2016. > > Cheers, > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic > patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are > consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, > J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning > reports. http://sdm.link/zohomanageengine > > > _______________________________________________ > DejaVu-fonts mailing list > Dej...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dejavu-fonts -- Frédéric Wang |
From: Denis J. <mo...@gm...> - 2016-06-19 12:52:23
|
Hi, There has been a major contribution from the TeX Gyre project. They have made a math version of DejaVu Sans and have contributed it back to us. It is already available at http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre-dejavu-math. They have release it last month and we will release it in the next version as DejaVu Math TeX Gyre. There will be a feature freeze on 25 June 2016 and the release will take place on 2 July 2016. Cheers, |
From: Denis J. <mo...@gm...> - 2016-06-19 12:49:28
|
Hi Jonathan, The license does not have to be on the product. It can be supplied with the product. Each font file already contains the license, so if you prefer you don’t have to add a printed copy. Cheers, On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 at 10:58 Jonathan Patience <jon...@me...> wrote: > Hi, > > I was hoping to get some info on potentially using your font on a product > I'm working on. > > I've read that the licence has to be present with the use of your font - > does that mean the licence itself has to be on the product or can it be > supplied on paper with the product? > > Thanks > > Jonathan > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and > traffic > patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols > are > consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, > J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity > planning reports. https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/305295220;132659582;e > _______________________________________________ > DejaVu-fonts mailing list > Dej...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dejavu-fonts > |
From: Giacomo T. <gi...@te...> - 2016-06-17 10:15:09
|
Hello DejaVu team, and thanks for your hard work on this wonderful font. I'm trying to customize DejaVu Sans Mono to meet a few requirements for a programming font, that no of the alternatives I've tried seem to satisfy. Indeed I need a font that - is easy to read, even for source code (like DejaVu Sans Mono) - has a good support for unicode - is monospaced so that it's easy to do rectangular selections of text (like DejaVu Sans Mono) - is light weighted (like DejaVu Sans ExtraLight) - is narrow to allow more text per line (like DejaVu Sans Condensed) To summarize what I want is a sort of "DejaVu Sans Mono ExtraLight Condensed". Following the steps described at https://gist.github.com/anonymous/d34c76b2564fad6d216c I managed to produce a condensed variant of DejaVu Sans Mono. Also I've read on the archive of this mailing list ( https://sourceforge.net/p/dejavu/mailman/message/8696989/ ) <https://sourceforge.net/p/dejavu/mailman/message/8697283/> that it is possible to generate the ExtraLight variant programmatically from an existing .sfd, but how? Giacomo |
From: Jonathan P. <jon...@me...> - 2016-06-10 09:57:41
|
Hi, I was hoping to get some info on potentially using your font on a product I'm working on. I've read that the licence has to be present with the use of your font - does that mean the licence itself has to be on the product or can it be supplied on paper with the product? Thanks Jonathan |
From: a s. <asw...@ho...> - 2016-04-17 22:44:58
|
Hi,As part of a transliteration system i am working on, I am using certain characters with a circle above.The circle above 030A does not sit well on top of these characters.I wonder if you could kindly address this particular issue. The 3 characters are as follows Ḍ 1E0C Ṭ 1E6C Ẓ 1E92 Ḍ̊ 1E0C + 030A Ṭ̊ 1E6C + 030A Ẓ̊ 1E92 + 030A Many thanks Aswalleh |
From: Nikolaus W. <mad...@gm...> - 2016-03-08 11:32:06
|
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_zZrrWRynnuSnZNWWNTU0FacFk/view?usp=sharing I quickly autohinted Sans Condensed with VTT so everyone can get a better idea of how it would look like. |
From: nocturnaldreamer <noc...@gm...> - 2016-03-07 15:42:24
|
Hi everyone, I like Denis' idea to autohint the condensed (and maybe also the ExtraLight) variants. As for possibly looking out of place, this would only be a problem when you see condensed and regular text next to another. In reality, if you mix them, you'd want to use one variant for headlines and the other for body text, so this should be a non-issue. To take it a step further, we might consider autohinting non-LGC scripts in the regular fonts. What do you think? Regards, Gee Fung Sit On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 7:04 PM, Nikolaus Waxweiler <mad...@gm...> wrote: > > We could use ttfautohint or VTT autohinting for the unhinted fonts. > > Autohinting the condensed variants is a good idea, but they'll look > slightly out of place next to the normal ones. Both FT's and VTT's > autohinter concentrate on shifting points on the y-axis, as that's the > only axis that matters in today's ClearType environments. Neither care > about the black-and-white rendering of pre-ClearType days. The DejaVu > family goes the extra 1000 miles to shift stuff on the x-axis to achieve > pixely sharpness, something I'm trying to stop in my interpreter dialect ;) > > I'll see if I can find out if the glitches I'm seeing in my dialect are > my bugs. > > > For the hinted fonts, it would be better to finish hinting all the > > glyphs but that’s going to take time and has been stalling for a > > while, so it’s problematic. > > > I'm against dropping the existing hinting, if you want to use an > > autohinter in Linux, you can enable it there, and also decide what > > flavour of autohinting you want, you can't do it the other way > > around. And personally, I don't like the autohinter's results... > > My question was less about replacing manual hints with automatic hints; > using an autohinter as a base for manual tweaking would also change the > hinting strategy for DejaVu > (http://www.beatstamm.com/typography/RTRCh6.htm#Sec10). Currently the > strategy is to round the weight of all strokes to full pixels (Strategy > 1) while the autohinters leave vertical strokes alone and round > horizontal strokes to fractional pixels. This is nicely visible when you > look at DejaVu in a glyph waterfall (e.g. in ftview -> press "6"). Note > the hard jumps in weight at specific sizes. Now look at one of the fonts > in the archive in my initial post. No hard jumps anywhere, just smooth > transitions from one size to the next. > > DejaVu is currently optimized for black-and-white ("bi-level") rendering > like in Win9x times. Using autohinters as a base would shift focus to > ClearType-like environments. So this would be as much a design decision. > > > Pro: all glyphs would get similar hinting > > > > Con: current hinting were done manually, and whatever an autohinter > > comes up with will need extra tweaking. FreeType does make wrong > > decisions sometimes and this does mean regressions if not a lot of > > effort is being made to fix it. > > True. What I like about VTT is that it is apparently designed to output > high-level instructions that make it easier to tweak things. It's > currently a Windows application though. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > DejaVu-fonts mailing list > Dej...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dejavu-fonts > |