Thread: Improved Bookerly
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Old 04-26-2020, 07:48 AM   #21
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
Didn't you see my post shoing how off the Bookerly is at a amllish size? It's not improved. It's broken.
Yeah. fwiw I've dug out the original and current Bookerly and have added to my huge bulging todo list to look at improving FreeType's autohinter, using Bookerly as a useful (but rare) example of the autohinter getting it wrong. The whole point of it is that most manual hinting should be unnecessary: this sort of uneven baseline is not meant to happen.

(Mind you, the way my todo list is it'll be about 2027 before I get to it, and I'll probably find it was a bug in FreeType fixed in 2019 and Amazon just never bothered to apply the fix and even if I do fix it, it'll probably be about 2040 before the fix makes it to any Kindles -- but what else can one do, etc.)
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