(computing) Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should be distorted in order to produce, at specific sizes, a visually appealing pixel-based rendering. Also known as hinting.
“The remainder of his section, now 60 strong, engaged in training on the hinter slope.”
“Let any one so much as hint that you are throwing yourself at Alec's head, and I shall have the hinter dynamited.”
“November 1898 sees the publication of his self-financed Romantische Lieder, and these are followed by the prose volume Eine Stunde hinter Mitternacht.”
