Brian Nelson wrote: > Richard Beri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Does anyone else find AA fonts annoying? I hate them, sure they "look" > > smoother, but I find that it just seems blurred and they are hard to > > read. Makes me feel something is wrong with my eyes. It hurts. > > Amen, brother. I've never understood the obsession with AA fonts. They > don't just seem blurry; they *are* blurry.
True, but at the same time, I find AA fonts far more readable than non-AA fonts, since the purpose of the blur (as we all surely know) is to smooth out jaggies. At large sizes, the smoothing is less necessary, but still makes the characters look smoother, which is aesthetically pleasing; but at very small sizes, it can make text readable that would otherwise not be, due to excessive jagginess (assuming the display itself is sharp enough that small text doesn't just turn into mud). I find that looking at small non-AA text gives me a nasty eye-strain headache after an hour or two. On MS Windows, there seems to be no solution for this, because Windows (stupidly) only anti-aliases text above a certain minimum size. In Gnome 2 or KDE 3, all text can be anti-aliased, and I have found that this actually makes it possible for me to work with smaller fonts without getting a headache. This, in turn, makes it possible for me to use my display more efficiently by using smaller fonts to enable me to see more at once. I consider this a good thing. If your mileage varies, then by all means, disable AA fonts in your account; but recognize, please, that this is a personal preference on your part, not a general proof that AA fonts are useless eye-candy. Craig
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