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Hinting italics
Posted by ATF in
18 Oct 2010 — 11:56pm
18 Oct 2010 — 11:56pm
Hi, wondering if anyone can assist:
I'm currently hinting a sans-serif family, and in the italics I tend to remove almost all the vertical stems. What's the general rule here? Is there any reason why I should NOT do this?
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19 Oct 2010 — 12:23am
I guess you are hinting an opentype/postscript-font?
I can't tell for sure, but i removed the verticals from my Tierra Nueva Italic too, as there was no result that "just made it look good".
21 Oct 2010 — 5:28pm
>Is there any reason why I should NOT do this?
Assuming you mean you are removing the hints, but leaving the stems themselves, yes, this is a good idea and the general rule of hinting for anti-aliased output is to not hint anything you can't align to the pixel grid.