: What's the term of what I need to fix here - Umlaut dots missing at 80% zoom? In my font, the Umlaut character is broken when viewing at 80% zoom in Word. It displays like U but is in
In my font, the Umlaut character is broken when viewing at 80% zoom in Word. It displays like U but is in fact Ü:
I'm now looking for the correct term of what needs to be fixed. First I thought the font needs kerning, but it seems that's only for distances between letters.
I only need the name of the problem. I can then google for the rest.
From the comments it seems the question is unclear, so again in other words: I don't want to fix it in Word - I could just zoom to 100%. I want to fix it in the font by using an aspect or process of typography.
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After more research I think the term I was looking for is hinting [Wikipedia].
It says
[...] adjust the display of an outline font so that it lines up with a rasterized grid [...]
and I think that's what might happen to the dots of the Umlaut: the just get anti-aliased away.
Hinting might give additional instructions to the dots so that they remain visible. I never did this before and I might need some training, but I can now learn about hinting, apply it to the font and see whether that also has a positive impact on zooming in Word.
It might still not help with zooming, because zooming a 12pt font at 80% may still not use the hinting of a 9.6pt font (12pt*80%). Discussing this is probably worth its own question.
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