On 2005-03-29, Giles Constant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 25 March 2005 17:03, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: >> >> Antialias support useless, and all this subpixel stuff is self-defeating >> bullshit too. The only way screens can convey that information in a >> non-ugly manner is for the resolution to be so big that you can't pinpoint >> individual pixels without a magnifier, and this defeats the purpose of >> these ugly kludges. > > This is a minority view. The fact is that by increasing the colour depth, > you > are perceptively increasing screen resolution by at least conveying *some* of > the information.
Yes, but together with a damn ugly blur, or in case of of subpixel rendering, mushroom haze. (I can see the colours on TFTs too with all rgb orderings.) > A typical example is a very small 'w' arranged like this: > > Unantialiased: > > 0 0 0 > 0 0 0 Once you start using fonts of 3x2 pixels, you have already done something terribly wrong. > This > all assumes that the font is well made in the first place. The standard unix > 'fixed' font is nice for just displaying text and is very readable without > anti-aliasing, but it's rare. The moment people try to make rounded shapes, > particularly on LCD monitors which have square pixels, artefacts start > confusing the eye into thinking it's looking at something more complicated > than a simple letter. I rather have minor rastering effects than an ugly blur that makes the font stand out from the screen. "Serif" fonts should never be used on screens for normal text, they're just not capable of displaying all that detail readably no matter what ugly blurring effects you apply. On paper, serif OTOH, is more readable than sans serif. > The default font for the menus in ion for example, is > absolutely disgusting and covered in artefacts. You're not using the same font I am. It looks great over here. <http://iki.fi/tuomov/menu.png> (Okay, the small 's' could be better, but blurred the corners would stand out even more.) > Badly made scaled fonts such as 'helvetica' should be banned from > existence. Yes, it sucks that it doesn't scale to all sizes, but the available sizes are great. > As long as the fonts are good quality and most importantly, accurate > (Bitstream Vera Sans springs to mind), *yuck* The Vera family is absolutely disgusting. And I don't mean rastering artefacts, blurring or anything. They're just ugly fonts. -- Tuomo
