Saturday, 29 June 2019

Where can I get information on the mechanics of fonts?


Following my line of "simple" questions: where can I find information about how fonts are made/rendered, and details like what hinting is?


Edit: I'd like more details about font rendering.



Answer



There is an open source font creation app fontforge, that has a very helpful help page describing many of the fundamentals of font construction:


http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/overview.html#TOC


and hinting specifically is here:


hinting


http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/hinting.html


Some more font building & hinting resources: iLT how to make a font part II — ❧ —Truetype Hinting — ❧ — Adobe opntype font development kitAdobe opentype hinting information — ❧ —Hinting tutorial from the DejaVu designers


Rendering Articles: How does sub-pixel rendering work? — ❧ — Font smoothing, anti-aliasing, and sub-pixel rendering


And just for fun:


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