Indeed, its unhinted to keep it small. That said, we could (with some $$) have it hinted, either generically, or with cleartype in mind.
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Brett Wilson <bre...@chromium.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Alex Russell <slightly...@google.com> wrote: >> >> MSFT did a new set of fonts to take specific advantage of ClearType: >> >> http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ClearTypeFonts.mspx >> >> The "Core Fonts" are still available and installed by default on all >> windows versions that I can find information on, but they were >> designed for a simpler time when sub-pixel hinting was still rare. I'm >> not sure that implies that we should do anything in particular WRT >> Droid, though. > > I have them on my Windows box. They are nice fonts, but I think they > are optimized for the antialiasing algorithm on Andorid: I don't find > that they look quite as good on Windows using ClearType. > > For a while, I was interested in including their fallback font which > we could use to guarantee that glyphs are available for most > characters. But (I assume) for space reasons on the phone, this font > is not hinted, so looks pretty ugly. > > Brett > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
