#hinting

Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #hinting from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.

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0
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
0
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
16
Recent posts
Mastodon
~0/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 16
0.4
Avg reactions / post
Mastodon · last 16
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Reddit posts / month
Reddit search
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Open-web mentions
hashtag.org Firehose

Day-by-day usage

measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-16 01:40 UTC
0
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0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.

Related hashtags

measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-16 01:40 UTC
#hintingandlinting
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#hintingatintimacyordeepconnection
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#hintingatpossible
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d

Live pulse

measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-16 01:40 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 16 public posts (spanning ~43346 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 07:00

00:0012:0023:00

Languages: English (13) · Lithuanian (1) · Russian (1) · Luxembourgish (1)

Avg boosts / post: 0.6

Top of the latest posts

  • So I've heard overlapping components in a hinted TT font is a big No — this comes up a lot in, for example, the `ç`, which usually has a `cedilla` component overlapping the `c` — but I've never seen an issue caused by overlapping components

    Colin M. Ford@[email protected]♥ 2↻ 02023-01-05 16:49 UTCView post →

  • Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType Hinting Interpreter https://www.swift.org/blog/migrating-truetype-hinting-to-swift/ #HackerNews #Swift #Apple #TrueType #Migration #Hinting #Interpreter

    Hacker News@h4ckernews♥ 1↻ 02026-06-12 20:54 UTCView post →

  • Thanks to Martin Wenzel of @supertype for covering so much #Hinting in his talk about BundesSabs and BundesSerif! #FontstandCon2026

    Edgar Walthert :NoWar:@[email protected]♥ 1↻ 12026-04-11 09:18 UTCView post →

What “hinting” means

Wiktionary · Wikipedia

hinting/ˈhɪntɪŋ/

  • verbTo suggest tacitly without a direct statement; to provide a clue.
  • nounThe act of giving a hint or suggestion.
Full entry on Wiktionary →

Font hinting, also known as instructing, is the use of mathematical instructions to adjust the display of an outline font so that it lines up with a rasterized grid. At low screen resolutions, hinting is critical for producing clear, legible text. It can be accompanied by antialiasing and subpixel rendering for further clarity.

“Font hinting” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →

#hinting across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #hinting straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.

X (Twitter) ↗Instagram ↗TikTok ↗Facebook ↗LinkedIn ↗YouTube ↗Threads ↗Bluesky ↗Mastodon ↗Reddit ↗Pinterest ↗Tumblr ↗

Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/hinting