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weight vs colourweight vs colourPosted Aug 10, 2012 18:09 UTC (Fri) by alankila (subscriber, #47141)In reply to: weight vs colour by pjm Parent article: Adobe ventures into open fonts
That is an enlightened comment.
You are absolutely right that the shear does not actually change the average color of the glyph in its box, even if you would subjectively evaluate the width of the slanted line as thinner than the straight line.
Proper implementation of font blending gets gamma right, even if linux software that does it correctly is very scarce -- in fact nonexistent would be more accurate. As an aside, I was able to get sRGB surface support in the 0.27.2 release of pixman, though, so maybe if I make more noise about this people start to use sRGB surfaces when blending text...
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weight vs colour Posted Aug 16, 2012 22:25 UTC (Thu) by njs (guest, #40338) [Link]
How does using sRGB surfaces help? sRGB isn't linear-light... right? Or is it just that when a surface is labeled sRGB then that gives a good excuse to also turn on linear-light alpha composition as well?
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