Other effects, such as removal of OpenType features and characters, are only noticeable if you happened to expect those features and/or characters. The same goes for all operations that scale the original outlines: there are bound to be differences, but they may occur at pixel levels. The effect of removing 'hinting', for example, can be quite small (when there was not much of it anyway, or applied badly), or extreme, especially in small sizes. There can be lots of reasons you may not notice "quality loss", not in the least because you are not looking close enough. ![]() Not sure about what 'flattening' means here, but again, it's removing existing features.Īdvanced Options: Em Square Value Adjust Glyph SpacingĪgain, re-scaling the font to another grid than it was designed on, and changing the overall design. (I know: most of them are not supported anyway.) OpenType Flattening: If the features are available, the generator will flatten OpenType Features: Keep All Features Comma Feature List In my book, removing characters from a font counts as 'decreasing its quality'. ![]() ![]() Please copy all content from it to override.css file inside your Gavick template css folder. Inside zip package that Font Squirrel Generator will create you will find also CSS file with a special CSS font-face declaration helps the various browsers select the appropriate font it needs. Subsetting: Basic Subsetting Custom Subsetting. Step 3: Include the webfont into stylesheet. Therefore, if you scale it, you are bound to loose some accuracy due to rounding. Re-scaling a font is inaccurate, as it's designed on a fixed grid. X-height Matching: Resize to match the selected font's x-height. Including 'generic' ones may lead to discrepancies in size (too narrow or too wide spaces) and style (consider a highly stylized font which suddenly contains a very plain hyphen). It's up to the font's creator to decide which characters should be in the font. "Remove Kerning" may be a 'fix' for browsers that do not support it, but a good font needs kerning, so removing it indeed decreases the font's overall quality. The GASP Table ("Grid-fitting and Scan-conversion Procedure"), again, should be determined by the font's creator. Not sure what may need to be 'fixed' in the vertical metrics. Rendering: Fix Vertical Metrics Fix GASP Table Remove Kerning The two options that change it are automated, while the existing hinting may be 'optimal', according to the designer (and decided on a per-character basis). Hinting, in a properly made font, is its creator's choice of how the font will display at small pixel sizes. Truetype Hinting: Font Squirrel Keep Existing TTFAutohint The mere act of changing a font's outlines to another format may change curves and hinting. ![]() only lining figures from a font, try the “Opentype Flattening:” option.The "Expert" field lists all possible adjustments, and there are lots of them that change the original font: Font Formats: TrueType WOFF WOFF2 EOT Lite EOT Compressed SVG If this fails to preserve the feature you need and if you wish to use e.g. When using the FontSquirrel WebFont generator, select “EXPERT” mode and check “Keep All Features” or list the features you want to keep, in “OpenType Features:”. aazev at 4:05 Add a comment 1 Answer Sorted by: 2 You can download FontPrep, a desktop client for Mac which converts the fonts for you. woff), font features are lost, depending on the conversion software. I'm aware that fontsquirrel has a couple similar fonts, already converted to webfont kits, namely M+ 1c and M+ 1m, and if i'm really unable to get M+ 2p converted, I might have to use one of them. It is quite possible that in conversions from one font format to another (e.g. ttf font to see whether it contains lining figures (select “Tools”, “'GPOS'/'GSUB' Table Viewer”, select “'GSUB' Table” in “Layout Table” dropdown and then look for “lnum” in the “Feature” dropdown). You can use the free DTL OTMaster Light program to inspect a. In a Windows system, you can check that it works (in modern browsers) by setting font to Constantia, which has old style numbers by default and lining figures selectable with font feature settings. Your rule with font-feature-settings and its vendor-prefixed variants works as such (the syntax with the value "lnum=1" is outdated but does not really disturb here), if the font used has lining figures.
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