Are you seeing the different defaults for LCD smoothing? The Text default is Grey and the Control default (which Label inherits) is LCD.
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 5:23 AM, Scott Palmer <swpal...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > >
