[Prev][Next][Index][Thread]
Re: Font Smoothing and CSS
Todd Fahrner wrote:
>
> I do agree that anti-aliasing is critical to rendering a wide variety of
> typefaces attractively at screen resolution.
It makes a tremendous difference. The quality of text display I get
from IE* or Netscape* is, frankly, rubbish - but most of my colleagues
think it is OK - I'm just used to nicely anti-aliased text all over my
desktop.
* Version 3 of both running on an NT4 server
> But I think this may be a minority opinion - many people complain
> about "fuzziness," no matter how well-done.
It would be interesting to discover user opinion from a wider survey.
You'd have to include the font technology they they based their
comments on too, as you wouldn't want to be confused by poor
implementations.
I've found that when I have to use Microsoft Windows, I have to use
large fonts because the smaller ones are unreadable. On my own
machine, I can happily use smaller fonts and everything remains far
more legible. Apart from the Acorn RISC OS font manager, which is
built-in to my computer, the only other system I have only seen the
Microsoft font smoothing. I haven't seen TrueDoc as it doesn't appear
to be supported on RISC OS yet as far as I've noticed.
--
Stewart Brodie, Electronics & Computer Science, Southampton University.
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~snb94r/
References: