Re: SVG glyph hinting

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 11:14 AM, David Woolley
<forums@david-woolley.me.uk>wrote:

> Robert O'Callahan wrote:
>
>> One issue with any approach to SVG glyphs that someone brought up on my
>> blog is that SVG doesn't support any kind of hinting so it'll probably be
>> difficult to create SVG glyphs that look good at low resolutions.
>>
>>  When this has been raised in the past, the official line has been that
> anti-aliasing has removed the need.
>

For small-sized font glyphs (or SVG images for that matter, such as icons
scaled to a small size), I don't believe it.

Rob
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