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QuLogic

opened on Nov 4, 2017

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While working out #9481, @anntzer and I have come to the conclusion that the hinting_factor setting is a relic of a different time when FreeType rendering was not so great. In essence, it causes horizontal rendering to be done at high resolution and then scaled down. However, it is not entirely clear that it is still necessary to do so.

Additionally, tests disable hinting but enable this factor (at 8x scaling). The default style enables both hinting and this factor. This makes it a bit difficult to say what the end effect would be overall.

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3. QuLogic

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4. tacaswell

   modified the milestones: v3.0, v3.1 on Aug 11, 2018
5. anntzer

   modified the milestones: v3.1.0, v3.2.0 on Feb 25, 2019
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   modified the milestones: v3.2.0, needs sorting on Sep 10, 2019
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10. anntzer commented on Apr 23, 2023

    

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    We should just drop it once we can regen the entire suite of baseline images (#14538).
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12. QuLogic commented on Apr 3, 2025

    

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    It looks like font.hinting_factor came in with #719, but that was simply the addition of an rcParam for something that was already hardcoded. And someone found that hinting_factor=1 with default hinting mode looked better. I might try out what they have as well.

    See #29816 (comment) for the effect of removing this setting.
13. QuLogic

    linked a pull request that will close this issueUpdate FreeType to 2.13.3 #29816on Apr 3, 2025
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    added this to Font and text overhaulon Jun 5, 2025
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    moved this to Waiting for other PR in Font and text overhaulon Jun 5, 2025
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    moved this from Waiting for other PR to In Progress in Font and text overhaulon Jun 5, 2025
17. QuLogic

    modified the milestones: future releases, v3.11.0 on Apr 10, 2026
18. QuLogic commented on Apr 10, 2026

    

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    The text-overhaul branch is now merged.
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    Drop support for font hinting factor

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