Turning off hinting does nothing.
I have a font with poor hinting where the alignment of several letters isn't working properly. When I select 'none' from the drop-down menu for hinting in the character panel, nothing changes. In previous versions of Illustrator, this is used to treat the letters as standard vectors.
Ian Farnam
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Ian, that’s not hinting, but the anti-aliasing method.
You can check it if you hover the mouse and wait to get the tooltip hint.
It doesn’t influence the hinting at all.If you wish to see the text as if it was outlined, but keep it live — apply Effect > Path > Outline Object to your type object.
I checked you claim and tested it with Ai CS6 (previous enough, I think — older versions didn't' have anti-aliasing control, unlike Photoshop).
Nope, ugly fonts with poor hinting don’t get better when another method gets chosen. You probably misremember that. Sorry!
