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Originally Posted by JSWolf
What I want to know is what's the best way to add hinting back to Bookerly,
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Take the glyphs from the new font, the hinting from the old, combine them, write hints for all the new unhinted glyphs not present in the old font (may be a *lot* of work: hand-hinting is subjective black magic). Or improve the autohinter so we don't *need* the hints to get the baselines non-wobbly (it really does look like it's only getting the baselines wrong enough to notice: the rest of the glyph shapes look OK).
Because typography is hard and I don't even know what most of the new glyphs are *supposed* to look like, but I can do software, I have more hope that I can do the latter.
Admittedly this is quite like writing memory allocators in that improving one case is likely to damage others, but I have trust that if I screw up FreeType's autohinter badly enough, people will let me know :P