Typophile - font problems in windows - Comments

ill try exporting it with

wwb244 — Wed, 2 Apr 2008 16:56:19 -0700

ill try exporting it with your thoughts and see what happens.

Arial is a ttf, with

Christoph — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:58:21 -0700

Arial is a ttf, with TrueType outlines and True Type instructions, your font is a otf with postscript outlines and postscript hints. The Windows rasterizer with its Clear Type technology renders them differently.

(David, I think Yixt is just

Mark Simonson — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:32:49 -0700

(David, I think Yixt is just showing Arial for comparison to the font on the first two lines.)

Looks like a hinting problem. Or, it could be that some of the outlines are going the wrong direction. They should all be going clockwise for TrueType, counter-clockwise for PostScript. (The outer-most paths, I mean.)

Arial is your font?

david hamuel — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:35:08 -0700

Arial is your font?

font problems in windows

wwb244 — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:07:33 -0700

I have just made my first font, woo hoo I have exported it as a otf. Works great on Macs but on Windows it looks terrible. I am using Fontlab Studio and I have tried so many things to get it working correctly, but nothing works.

As you can see it looks ’clumpy’

I am thinking this is a common problem but i have not seen anything about it... so maybe it is not common. Please help :)