On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Tim wrote:
Matthew Saltzman:
LCD displays have the additional ability to use the colored subpixels to
get even better effects.
To be honest, I think that looks far worse than the anti-aliasing you
get from a CRT, simply due to how the beam scans the phosphors. It
smoothes the rough edges by having imperfect focus. LCDs, on the other
hand, using the individual coloured pixels to attempt to get more
resolution, ends up with strangely coloured text. It's like reading
badly registered printing where they've not used pure black ink.
You do have to do this carefully and with consideration for the subpixel
order or it can look awful. Done right, though, it can look better than
CRTs--smoother edges, very little loss of sharpness, very little apparent
color (when viewed from normal distance).
Also see http://avi.alkalay.net/linux/docs/font-howto/Font.html,
http://www.grc.com/ctwhat.htm,
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
