Amazing

Amazing

Posted Sep 25, 2007 3:26 UTC (Tue) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: Amazing by ncm
Parent article: Font rasterization techniques

A large part of the problem is that our fonts are simply not designed for that sort of use right now. Turn on subpixel anti-aliasing and either disable hinting or set it to slight. Now type some content in Vera Sans at a moderate pixel height (15 pixels or so is probably enough, but 20 should also show it). Marvel at how the vertical strokes suddenly gain offensively obvious colour fringes.

There are some tricks we can play with different colouring algorithms for subpixel anti-aliasing which can improve the perceived rendering of the font in many cases, but moving to a model where we don't try to align the glyphs to whole pixel boundaries is going to require a good set of fonts that cope with that model.

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