“What if humans standardized on a common set of language symbols.” “What if we program 18,000 code points in a Turing-complete font system.”
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Replying to @SwiftOnSecurity
It was brilliant in 1990 when unhinted vector fonts at small sizes looked like shit compared to hand-tuned bitmaps on 72 DPI screens.
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Replying to @vitahallo @SwiftOnSecurity
Rendering glyphs at a higher resolution then downscaling to grayscale produces a much better result if you actually want font variation.
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Hinted TTF was a decent substitute for hand-drawn monochrome bitmap fonts, but not for proper rendering of beautiful for-print fonts.
7:19 PM - 31 Oct 2017
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