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Re: Better default font
by nobody a.k.a. idiot on Wednesday 12/Dec/2007, @11:24

That's the hinting screwing everything up. (IMHO the Liberation fonts all look awful though, especially the Mono font.. completely unusable)
The solution for better font rendering lies in display technology. Hinting will always destroy the way how the font is actually supposed to look.
I've seen the XO-1 in grayscale mode (200 dpi apparently) and fonts look awesome on that machine.
Right now I run my Desktop at 1600x1200 (@100HZ :-) on a 19" CRT without hinting and it looks alright. I'm having a hard time to find a LCD replacement for this Monitor though. A 20" screen at a resolution of 1920x1200 would be nice but I guess that's not going to happen (soon and at an affordable price).

So the magic words for "good" looking fonts are DPI, PPI, pixel density, dot pitch and so on ..but NOT hinting. :-)

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Re: Better default font
by Flavio on Wednesday 12/Dec/2007, @23:57

Amen.

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Re: Better default font
by logixoul on Thursday 13/Dec/2007, @08:40

A-ha. Thank you.

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