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Splotchy text with certain fonts

Open rubiefawn opened this issue 3 months ago • 1 comments

It appears that two fonts, possibly more, are incorrectly converted, resulting in a splotchy appearance. The first font I tried, Eczar Bold, is unusably bad:

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The second font I tried, Inknut Antiqua, is much better, but suffers on thin lines, such as the horizontal areas on 'a' and 'e':

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How to reproduce

  1. Download TTF for Eczar and/or Inknut Antiqua from Google Fonts
  2. Convert using https://maplibre.org/font-maker

Attachments

  • [x] Include the font file (.ttf or .otf) you are trying to convert.

rubiefawn avatar Sep 07 '25 04:09 rubiefawn

The issue with thin lines might be due to the signed-distance field method.

wipfli avatar Sep 07 '25 06:09 wipfli