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Sub-pixel antialiasing is pretty common in fonts these days, but this is
the first time I've ever seen a font explicitly designed using sub-pixel
techniques:
http://typophile.com/node/61920
It's impressively legible and nice looking considering most of the
characters are just three pixels high. You can get a really nice
illustration of what's going on by looking at this image which has a
blow-up picture of some text in this font as well as that same text in
normal size:
http://typophile.com/files/ipsum_3674.png
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Kevin Wampler schrieb:
> Sub-pixel antialiasing is pretty common in fonts these days, but this is
> the first time I've ever seen a font explicitly designed using sub-pixel
> techniques:
>
> http://typophile.com/node/61920
While this might seem a good idea at first glance, the problem is that
it relies on a certain arrangement of sub-pixels. If the monitor doesn't
use RGBRGB but rather RGBRGB, organizes sub-pixels vertically instead of
horizontally, or uses a 2x2 matrix, the whole benefit of the font goes
down the drain, and may actually be counter-productive.
That's why ClearType, when you first use it on a computer, annoys you
with questions about "which of these looks best?"
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Warp wrote:
> Kevin Wampler <wam### [at] u washingtonedu> wrote:
>> http://typophile.com/node/61920
>
> While the individual letters, when separated by spaces, are relatively
> legible, the example text written with those letters is quite hard to
> read in my CRT (1600x1200). I bet it's more legible in an LCD screen.
I do indeed find it pretty easy to read on my LCD. Other than being so
tiny of course.
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Kevin Wampler <wam### [at] uwashingtonedu> wrote:
> Sub-pixel antialiasing is pretty common in fonts these days, but this is
> the first time I've ever seen a font explicitly designed using sub-pixel
> techniques:
>
> http://typophile.com/node/61920
I shouldn't spend my time worrying about such things, but some guy really
obsesses over this in the comments. He posted about ten long, abusive comments,
nitpicking the historical precedence for hand-designed sub-pixel fonts. I bet
he has really high blood pressure.
- Ricky
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triple_r wrote:
> I shouldn't spend my time worrying about such things, but some guy really
> obsesses over this in the comments. He posted about ten long, abusive comments,
> nitpicking the historical precedence for hand-designed sub-pixel fonts. I bet
> he has really high blood pressure.
Holy cow does that guy take his fonts seriously.
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