René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Broken characters with FreeSerif and no hinting ","articleBody":"The FreeSerif font produces strange output when hinting is disabled. This is not a default configuration (which is `force_autohint`), but is set when building tests.\r\n```python\r\nimport matplotlib.pyplot as plt\r\n\r\nplt.rcParams['text.hinting'] = 'none'  # 'force_autohint'\r\n\r\nfig, ax = plt.subplots()\r\nkw = {'font': 'freeserif', 'fontsize': 14}\r\n# characters where Free Serif uses various scales and linear transforms\r\n# e.g. the right paren is a reflected left paren\r\nax.text(.05, .1, \"parens, FAX, u with two diacritics: ()℻ǘ\", **kw)\r\nax.text(.05, .2, \"double arrows LURD, single arrows LURD: ⇐⇑⇒⇓←↑→↓\", **kw)\r\nax.text(.05, .3, \"corner arrows, wreath product: ↴↵≀\", **kw)\r\nax.set_xticks([])\r\nax.set_yticks([])\r\n\r\nfig.savefig(f'hinting-{plt.rcParams[\"text.hinting\"]}.png')\r\nfig.savefig(f'hinting-{plt.rcParams[\"text.hinting\"]}.pdf')\r\nfig.savefig(f'hinting-{plt.rcParams[\"text.hinting\"]}.svg')\r\n```\r\n\r\n![ttconv_transforms](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/92814/88548337-a3491880-d027-11ea-8998-c09c175a2a83.png)\r\n\r\n_Originally posted by @jkseppan in https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/18081#issuecomment-664402276_","author":{"url":"https://github.com/QuLogic","@type":"Person","name":"QuLogic"},"datePublished":"2020-08-14T06:19:24.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":4},"url":"https://github.com/18252/matplotlib/issues/18252"}