Speaking of fonts...

[Matthew Saltzman]

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.
-- 
 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs