I posted some notes about my ideas for what I call mathematical pseudo-hinting in the Discussion forum in a thread entitled Lack of Clarity of Fonts about a month ago.
Also, I mentioned in this thread that the Microsoft platform uses 16 pixels for 12 point. I should have said that at least the Windows 95 and Windows 98 platforms use 16 pixels for 12 point when using an 800 wide by 600 high display as those are the only machines upon which I have tested it. Other Windows platforms may possibly use that setting or may perhaps use something else. I did my checks by setting some text, doing a PrintScreen, pasting into Microsoft Paint then viewing at 8x magnification and counting pixels by adding pixels alongside in a different colour so as to make a rule, the rule being drawn four pixels wide at every tenth pixel, two pixels wide for all other even-numbered pixels and one pixel wide for all other pixels. The test could be done easily using the STYLEART.TTF font using a figure 1 as that is a full 2048 font unit by 2048 font unit square.
Incidentally, I like the Paint program: I find that it is very versatile.
William