monospace without hinting make some parts bold

[Sandra Karuving]

because i do not like blurry bold fonts but clear sharp ones i disable hinting. if i do this some letters "d,g,l,u" came up with an bold stroke
on the screenshot u can see left without, right with hinting

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Hello Sandra, thank you for the attached screenshot; It's worth noting two aspects:

  1. Black-and-white rendering only works with Manually Hinted forms
  2. UbuntuBeta Mono Regular does not (yet) the Manual hinting information (it's being done)

To see the difference with and without the manual hinting information, see:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-family/+bug/820493/+attachment/2252318/+files/ubuntu-mono-hinting-48pt.png

Back to your report here; yes I *can* see the issue on the attached screenshot , but I'm puzzling over the description you wrote. Would you be able to find a different way of phrasing the description to better help me understand it.

Looking at the image, I think it is showing:

  Left: Black-and-white, no-antialiasing, hinting enabled (but without the font having the necessary information)
  Right: Sub-pixel, antialiasing, hinting disabled

Does that make sense? If not, could you take screenshots of the font-settings dialogue box along with each side of the screenshot. This will allow reproducing the image for testing purposes more easily.