A Treatise on Font Rasterisation

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A Treatise on Font Rasterisation [Freddie Witherden] The title of this informative article is A Treatise on Font Rasterisation With an Emphasis on Free Software. It explains font hinting, anti-aliasing, subpixel rendering and positioning, and gives a survey of the state of the art, and pays special attention to X11 and Unix. The following Unix tools are discussed: Freetype, Fontconfig, Cairo, Qt and Xft.	EXTERNAL LINKS A Treatise on Font Rasterisation MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Typography ⦿ Font software ⦿ X windows font software ⦿

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