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Linux LibertineLinux LibertinePosted Jun 20, 2012 17:33 UTC (Wed) by walex (subscriber, #69836)In reply to: Linux Libertine by kramal Parent article: Liberation fonts and the tricky task of internationalization
Here almost certainly "quality" refers to "on-screen quality", that is how well the font renders at much low DPI than printing. This used to require extensive hinting, especially for TrueType fonts, and hinting TTF used to require special expensive tools, and a large amount of tedious work, and thus as a rule only commercial fonts, like the Microsoft Web Fonts, were well-hinted. Various Linux suppliers have been in recent years paying foundries to improve the hinting of the fonts they sponsor, the free FontForge tool now makes hinting easier, and as a result some freeware fonts are not somewhat well hinted for low DPI, notably DejaVu, in my impression.
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Linux Libertine Posted Jun 21, 2012 9:23 UTC (Thu) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link]
The big ugly secret is that Microsoft web fonts were *not* well-hinted.
To get good web font rendering in windows microsoft had to workaround those web font bugs in the font rendering stack of windows of the time
That's why :
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