Re: Fw: How to have sharp fonts?
Alexei Podtelezhnikov <[email protected]> Thu, 2 Mar 2023 20:30:12 -0500
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>> * Usually pure greyscale (pixel) antialasing is way better for >> me, but it also depends on whether the background is dark or >> light and whether the rendering library applies the right >> gamma correction for that > > Since many/most text setting libraries don't take this into > account... This is exactly the problem with Linux unfortunately. Look at the zebra patterns on this page: https://freetype.org/freetype2/docs/rasterinfo/rasterinfo.html They are not bard-on-light or light-on-dark. They are zebras which need to be rendered evenly without moire or color fringes. Windows lately does very good job; Linux desktops suck though. Then people bend over backwards trying to compensate for that. Instead, gamma correction should be one of the text settings.