Four fonts walk into a bar.
The bartender says, "Hey! We don't want your type in here!"
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Nobody told the fonts about that pub? it seems these fonts weren't hinted...
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Hinted?
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I was playing with 'hinting' double meaning.
'Hint' means indication. But font hinting is how fonts are rendered in low definition screens.
I kinda like typography and I'm very picky about using my favorite fonts when reading books. In the reader I use (MoonReader in Android), for some reason hinted fonts don't render properly, so I have to edit them in TypeLight to eliminate hinting data.
Thanks. I'm familiar with printing typography from my old job, but that was a term I had not encountered before.
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As far as I know (which is not much) it doesn't exist in printed typography, since printed types have extremely high resolution, and this is not even a problem.
In a screen, on the contrary, you have to use every trick to make fonts more readable, specially serif ones. Garalde fonts that look amazing when printed, they look awful in a screen. (I got a couple of serif fonts that look quite well in a small screen, particularly a William Caslon one, and I keep them safe as a little treasure).
Very interesting, thanks. That's why I had never heard of it.
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A horse goes into a bar and the bartender says "Hey, why the long face" hehehehe.
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