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GERGE · 05-06-2015, 03:50 AM

By the way, FontForge's Change Glyph option sometimes helps greatly. Here is an example of its use with its default settings:

This is without any editing: http://drop.muratcansimsek.com/Scree...2010.29.12.png

This is after using it: http://drop.muratcansimsek.com/Scree...2010.30.24.png

Difference seems very minimal but it is actually very sane (in this example) and does sometimes much better work than device-side weight changing. What it does is making finest details of the glyphs more rough. It does not damage the typeface but eliminates finer details that cannot be accurately produced on eInk screens, details which are there for high quality printing.

Of course, it will make many typefaces worse, source glyphs must be very detailed for it to work, like the great Adobe Text (I don't think Robert Slimbach is capable of producing anything even slightly bad) in my example.

But it should never be used to change the weight, because then it also changes the height.

05-06-2015, 03:50 AM	#6
GERGE Guru Posts: 733 Karma: 5797160 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Istanbul Device: Kobo Libra	By the way, FontForge's Change Glyph option sometimes helps greatly. Here is an example of its use with its default settings: This is without any editing: http://drop.muratcansimsek.com/Scree...2010.29.12.png This is after using it: http://drop.muratcansimsek.com/Scree...2010.30.24.png Difference seems very minimal but it is actually very sane (in this example) and does sometimes much better work than device-side weight changing. What it does is making finest details of the glyphs more rough. It does not damage the typeface but eliminates finer details that cannot be accurately produced on eInk screens, details which are there for high quality printing. Of course, it will make many typefaces worse, source glyphs must be very detailed for it to work, like the great Adobe Text (I don't think Robert Slimbach is capable of producing anything even slightly bad) in my example. But it should never be used to change the weight, because then it also changes the height.