On 25 Jan 2015, at 9:38 , Nicolai Hess <nicolaihess@web.de> wrote:
It looks like this gray-scale vs. colored subpixel antialiasing is an issue on windows. I did the same test on linux (Ubuntu 14.04) (screenshot attached). But still, the font rendering with the freetype plugin (morphic way) looks better than the athens one.
any ideas/help?
<world_menu_athens.png><world_menu_morphic.png>
Looks like 2 major differences to me; - No kerning (custom distance between character pairs, not defined solely by glyph size, o - r pair is pretty obvious) Not familiar with the athens path, in FreeTypeFonts this is handled image-side. - Pixel fitting. (The aliasing going on at the top of characters) Put Hinting: None in FreeType advanced features, and you will probably see something similar to the Athens rendering. Cheers, Henry