Re: Experimental Xft + gamma correction patch

Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 11:16:18 +0400 Vadim Plessky <[email protected]> babbled:
> 
> 
>>On Monday 24 June 2002 1:31 am, Owen Taylor wrote:
>>|  I've put up some screenshots at:
>>|
>>|   http://people.redhat.com/otaylor/fonts/gamma-screenshots/
>>|
>>
>>Owen,
>>
>>In my opinion, screenshot "With improved hints and gamma correction" (which I 
>>believe you rfer to) has serious renderin artefacts.
>>Width (*boldness*) of diagonal stems (v w x y z V W X Y X Z ) and curved 
>>glyphs (a b c d g o p q s B C D G O Q S 3 5 6 7 8 9) is inconsistent with 
>>widths of horizontal and vertical stems.
>>I think rendering on screenshot "With improved hints" (no.2) is better than on
>>
>>screenshot with gamma correction (no.3) 
> 
> 
> i'll agree - tho i prefer the "original font" first one. looks the best imoh..
> then again i have spent a little time fixing the birghtness & contrast on my
> monitor to look good.. and the color fringing on the subpixel rendering just
> looks nasty - even on my lcd screen (and even the ms cleartype looks nasty too
> so i just have a thing against cleartype-like stuff cause of the color fringing
> - it just starts looking like a screen that has its rgb guns out of alignment)

Try the Free & Clear demo on this page; http://grc.com/cleartype.htm. It 
let you set the weight differently on r, g and b to see what is best on 
your monitor. Its a windows program though.


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-Torgeir