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P: Improve font antialiasing

  • April 5, 2011
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Please please please add sub pixel aliasing to fonts! When creating a mock UI I can never make it look great, especially when working with body text / smaller fonts.

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    Inspiring
    April 6, 2011
    You do know that webkit gets a lot of type wrong, right? And certain OSes butcher asian typefaces?

    It is kind of difficult to match browser and OS renderers bug for bug....
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    April 6, 2011
    yes, antialiasing. I did mean the clear type but wasn't aware people were abandoning it. Forgetting the technical terminology, basically I want body text on photoshop to look as good as it does on Webkit. 🙂
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    April 6, 2011
    I truly hope that you mean antialiasing.

    And by "subpixel" antialiasing - do you mean CoolType/ClearType color filter antialiasing that everyone is abandoning? It only works if you know the exact layout of the color components of the display being used (and never rotate the display), and doesn't apply across different displays. Newer displays will be making that style of antialiasing even more difficult to support -- so OS vendors are quickly moving away from it.
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