The Grey vs LCD would explain it. I haven't ever tried to alter the defaults.
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Danno Ferrin <danno.fer...@shemnon.com>wrote: > 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 >> >> >
