Differing heights of capitals in VS (due to hinting?)

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scottmcm opened this issue 5 years ago · comments

My VS is currently rendering THING as follows, with the HN seeming shorter than the TIG:

NN-rescaled of the above, to show that it's 3 pixels different (out of 19):

Zooming in that stops happening, so I guess it's something about hinting?

Really minor overall, but it jumped out at me for some reason.

(OTF version 1.7.2, Windows 10)

Jany Belluz · Answer 1 · Fri Oct 11 2019 17:00:12 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Can you try the TTF version instead of OTF? It has hinting from ttfautohint which should solve this kind of problems.

scottmcm · Answer 2 · Sat Oct 12 2019 04:09:33 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Yup, looks like the TTF is more consistent here:

Jany Belluz · Answer 3 · Mon Jan 27 2020 00:11:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Also in the latest release, the webfonts should include hinting from ttfautohint so they should look less funky than the first screenshots.