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Sheepolution1 day ago (3 edits)

I'm using your fonts in LÖVE. In 11.5 it works fine, but in 12.0 they updated something related to kerning. With your fonts I often encounter letters colliding. Most likely this is a LÖVE issue, but maybe you can help me figure out where the problem is, so that I can report it to the devs.

For example, in the font small scarab, I get these colliding letters at size 16:




So, two questions:

  1. The base font size for all fonts is 16, right? Because on size 32 it does render properly.
  2. Is there anything in the kerning data of these characters that could cause these collisions? Note that 'em' is fine, but 'eem' causes a collide.
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ChevyRay1 day ago

Oh very interesting. Yeah sometimes certain software just renders the pixel fonts wrong, because not all software uses the same rules for how it places pixels it can be tricky to really track down the issue.

On the LOVE website it says that 12.0 is "In development" so this might be worth reporting as pixel art games probably aren't entirely unheard of in that engine. Looking through the changelog, there definitely were some changes to font/text classes:

  • Added initial support for right-to-left (RTL) text when using TrueType and OpenType fonts
  • Added a variant of Font:getWidth which takes a codepoint number argument
  • Added optional settings table variants for love.graphics.newFont, love.font.newRasterizer, and love.font.newTrueTypeRasterizer
  • Added love.graphics.newTextBatch (renamed from love.graphics.newText)

There was also this change:

  • Changed text layout and rendering in high-dpi situations to be more consistent across DPI scales.

This last one seems most likely the culprit, so if I can track down what exactly they changed there, this could be the source of the problem.

hmm

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Sheepolution1 day ago (2 edits)

This might be the relevant commit, and most likely line 127 is where it goes wrong. Not sure what would have to change to solve both my problem and the issue it's referring to, or if that is even possible. For now I can use the hack that I render the font as size 32, but then scale it down by half. It's not great, but it works.

Edit: Okay maybe it's not that commit specifically. But anyway, I'll make an issue for it. Thanks for the reply.

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