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I have a .woff font that is rendering very poorly on Windows platforms. I suspect this may be due to a lack of hinting information but I need to make sure.
Can you recommend a tool that can inspect the font file and tell me if hinting metrics exist within it?
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What is font hinting? The basics explained. In the early days of fonts, each glyph was stored as a bitmap at a range of sizes. Drawing it was a simple case of picking the right sized image of the glyph and putting it on the screen.
The reason this is significant; the reason you should care and the reason this development is on par with the invention of wearing underwear on the outside to save on laundry bills - is because the ability to embed fonts enables the using of fonts that may not be on the client's system. And WOFF fonts are optimised for this task.
This takes a specified WOFF file and gives it a name that can then be used within CSS using the font-familyproperty. The @font-faceis a CSS rule, and to use it, it needs to go in a CSS file.
First, compile and install Google's woff2 tools by pasting all of the following into a terminal and pressing Enter: Once the tool has been compiled and installed, convert a single TTF or OTF file to WOFF2 by running: 1 Note that SFNT here refers to the SFNT table format that both TTF and OTF font formats are built around.
TTX/Fonttools can decompress and dump OpenType fonts. Check the TTGlyph entries in glyf table. If these contain an instructions element: this contains the hinting info. If it's not there, the glyphs don't have hinting.
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