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TrueType hinting is the holy grail of screen optimisation. It gives you more control over the screen-rendered shape of your glyphs than CFF/PostScript could. While it is also more complex, it is also file-size efficient, and can be done quite quickly once you get the hang of it.

By popular request, here’s a tutorial on how to insert hints manually. Disclaimer: once again, this is pretty advanced stuff. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Good screen rendering at small sizes needs good hinting. But good hinting is quite a complicated matter. Therefore, you want it to happen as automatically as possible. If you follow a few simple rules, you can reach pretty good results without much work.

TrueType autohinting is an easy and effective way to improve the on-screen legibility of your font on Windows.