This talks about a presentation that was given where the details of font hinting were disclosed. Does anyone know if there is a video available of that?
In a paper that accompanied the video, Warnock outlined the methods Adobe used, describing them as '[type] hints and erosion [that] produced high-quality raster representations of the letters at medium and high resolution." Paper linked here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/298409252_Simple_Id...