How Font Fusion Provides the Best Solution
Bitstream's Font Fusion provides the best possible output for digital TV of any font solution on the market today. That is because Font Fusion has built-in TV modes and anti-flicker filters to optimize characters on TV screens, whether interlaced or progressive scanning is used.

Native Hints, Grayscale

When hinting characters - for example, using native TrueType hints - the most important features of a character provide the sharpest transitions. For example, on the letter "O," the most important features of the character, and the ones that keep the character symmetrical, are on the top, bottom, and sides of the characters -- the blackest areas of the character. But on TVs, the hints, which are supposed to preserve these important features, actually cause more artifacts!

Font Fusion's TV Mode and Anti-Flicker Filter
Font Fusion's TV mode helps preserve the symmetry of the character shapes, such as the letter "O," by controlling the height and the width of the characters.

Font Fusion's anti-flicker filter helps smooth out sharp transitions by spreading out font information over several scan lines. In other words, the anti-flicker filter smooths out the brightness between adjacent scan lines by providing more transitional levels of color (or gray) between the foreground (the text) and the background. The result? Less flickering and more legible text.

Font Fusion Provides a High-End Font Engine with TV Mode Output

• Minimizes sharp transitions between foreground and background
• Minimizes artifacts on the TV screen
• Preserves symmetry of the character shapes
• Reduces flickering on interlaced screens
• Produces the highest-possible quality output on TV

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