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Old 01-30-2020, 09:28 AM   #96
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
Here is the link to ttfautohint. It's great for adding hinting to a font.

https://www.freetype.org/ttfautohint/index.html

And here is the link to the source on Github so it can be built for Linux.

https://github.com/source-foundry/ttfautohint-build
But that's just embedding the result of FreeType's autohinter in the font as explicitly-specified hints. How will that help with a font for which the autohinter is producing bad output? It'll just embed the bad output into the font...
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