Who else wants to understand hinting?
Last week I asked Typophiles, “to what rendering concoctions are our web type specs subject?”
What I’d like to know more about is how the hinting interacts with the rendering engine and anti-aliasing settings. If a typeface’s hints want to rasterize an outline one way, but the rendering engine wants to lay the same bezier in a different way, which wins? What does the math look like? Are values averaged? Overridden?
Thoughtful discussion and fun resulted, as usual, in the thread. Toward the bottom, Kent Lew shares a link to this Microsoft Typography piece on the basics of hinting. Didn’t completely answer my question, but now I know a little more.
How great is Typophile? Thanks, Kent!