I used to do manual PS hinting because I found situations in which I preferred the results I could achieve that way to what either the FontLab or Adobe autohinter were doing. But I gave up after Adobe took fonts I had made for them in this way and ran them through their autohinter. Now I used the FDK autohinter to generate stem hints. Note that you need to set up standard stem hint values first, and can affect the outcome of alignment zone hinting by adjusting the Blue Scale value.

Question: does Adobe's autohinter work with Latin fonts only/better? And this question can be extended to any other auto-hinting software.

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Hrant: does Adobe's autohinter work with Latin fonts only/better?

It's script agnostic: it identifies stems based on outline architecture, and doesn't involve any knowledge of what the glyphs are. This fits with Adobe's long term hinting and rasterising philosophy: PS stem hints, alignment Blue zones and Blue Scale values, and standard stem values provides hints to the rasteriser about the architecture of the glyph. So it makes more sense to ask whether the rasteriser works better with some scripts than others, rather than asking whether the hinting tool does.

Topy, PS hints and TT hints are two completely different animals. What's your target market?
Do you have the time to provide both OTF with PS hints and TTF with TT hints?

Thanks for the comments! Well if it's good enough for Adobe, I guess it's good enough for me. Its definitely targeted for print, but I guess in the end there'll be always some people who want to use it on screen. So I'm thinking modest preparing for that can't hurt.

I was thinking about turning the font to TT for the Ttfautohinter, but I'm not sure if it's worth the trouble. I have never made TT fonts before and don't know exactly what's involved.

Richard, what would be the benefits of doing both PS and TT versions? I mean, doesn't TT OT work just as well for printing?

Would you consider hiring a TrueType hinter? Converting to TT adds to the file size, but using components wisely can save quite a bit. PM if you want a qoute.

Frode, thanks but I think I'll manage with PS hints for now. Good to know for the future, though.