08-28-2024, 06:59 AM
(08-28-2024, 01:21 AM)Lafflesia Wrote: Hi everyone,
I was using this custom font and I came to notice for some reason it is slightly different from what it's supposed to look like, and this only happens in GIMP. I think the letters and other characters are slightly different too, but it really isn't noticeable, but what IS noticeable and has been bothering me is the period for some reason looking like a comma, which isn't supposed to happen
Here are the pics of the font in gimp and how it should actually look:
Once again, I've tested it on multiple programs, and GIMP was the only one to display it like this... any fix? I really can't get over the period
Two things:
- At small sizes some features of a font can be adjusted for readability. This is called "hinting", and the font file defines what should be done (this is not Gimp doing this on its own). The Text tool has an option to set the amount of hinting that you want.
- To make the text look nicer, modern system use sub-pixel rendering, that makes the text rendering depend on its actual position on the screen (and its color) and also slightly alters the shape. Gimp cannot use this because the text can be moved or its color changed once it has been rendered, and this optimization would turn into a "pessimization".