I’m developing a font with no vertical or horizontal lines.
Guidelines are great! I use a pair of guideline for either side
of the stroke. Based purely on my scanned and imported bitmaps
of hand-drawn glyphs, these strokes are at the following angles:
170, 98, 20
I case you are trying to visualize this the font is Hebrew.
However my question is independent of the language:
What are the best angles to avoid jaggies (or indistinct edges)
at small point sizes?
No replies! maybe that means there are no answers to my question so I have been doing some research myself.
http://mikethompsonpaintings.com/stroke_test.gif
In the above example, I have made a single test character consisting of
five stroke at angles 130, 120, 110, 98 and 95 degrees. Then I
displayed the character at 24, 16, 14, 12, 11 and 10 points.
I did a screen capture followed by magnifiying the image while
maintaining the pixels.
(davecrosby) As you suggested I used few nodes. There two on-curve
nodes at each end of the stokes and one off-curve node to round the end
making a total of 6 nodes per stroke.
The strokes are all 60 units wide.
It is interesting that at 12pt and smaller, there is no anti-aliasing.
Can the font change this? I think that my font might be OK if
anti-aliased down to 12pt.
I find it odd that the smallest character (10pt) displayes a jaggy for
the most vertical stoke (on the extreme right).