Submission + - Superior font rendering using unpatented software (antigrain.com)
Vireo writes: Joel Spolsky recently pointed to a quite interesting article on font rendering by Maxim Shemanarev, author of the AGG rendering engine. Shemanarev denounces the way Microsoft implements font hinting, going so far as to accuse Microsoft of stalling progress in LCD technology. He compares font rendering by Adobe, Microsoft, Apple and FreeType, and concludes by proposing a simple modification to FreeType which allows superior font rendering without using any patented software.
