Questions tagged [font-rendering]

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Is there an algorithm to bold an outline font?

One of my friend got a pretty pretty Chinese hand-writing font. However, the font has no bold version, since it is handwritten. And I would like to help generate a bold one automatically by code. I searched the Internet but didn't find any materials…
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Why does some text on my laptop have only gray-scale pixels while other text has color pixels?

In this question I generated the images below to explain why I can't use TTFs for that 1-bit display application. But now I would like to understand from the perspective of a non-expert, why is some black-on-white text on my screen made from gray…
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