From what I have observed, Text and Label appear to have different defaults for when antialiasing is applied. Text will do it always, Label only when the font is greater than a certain size.
Scott On 2013-08-28, at 5:26 AM, "John C. Turnbull" <ozem...@ozemail.com.au> wrote: > Hi Felipe, > > Thanks for the info. > > Is kerning planned for a Java 8 update or will it have to wait for 9? Or > 10? > > One more thing I have just noticed is that the way the text is rendered in a > Text object with LCD font smoothing is quite different from a Label (with > the Text object looking better and closer to native text). > > While I concede that the "better" font rendering I thought I observed in > WebView is probably an illusion, there is definitely a difference between > Text and Label (at least on this machine). > > Why would that be? Are they rendered differently? > > Thanks, > > -jct