On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 11:25:20 +1100 Nigel Tao <nigel...@golang.org> wrote:
> Bigelow & Holmes, the designers of the Go Fonts, are preparing an > update to those fonts. [...] > If you have any other bug reports, feature requests, or just like to > comment in general, please reply to the discussion group here, and > I'll pass it on to B&H. I'm not really sure my concerns have chances to be addressed these days, but oh well... ;-) I, for one, despise antialiasing of fonts. I have no clear idea about why is it, but I just can't live with fuzzy-looking letters. No matter how great antialiasing algorythm is (I tried ClearType on Windows, whatever Apple uses in its Mac OS, and FreeType library on GNU/Linux, I don't like the results). So, on the systems where I work, I have any sort of antialiasing disabled. For some reason some TrueType/OpenType fonts are rendered just OK in these settings, while others are not. Unfortunately, Go fonts -- while I otherwise very much like how they look -- fall into the second category. I've attached a bunch of screenshots taken on my GNU/Linux system which uses FreeType 2.6.3 -- with different font antialiasing settings. In particular, please look how Go fonts look on go-alias-full-no-hinting.png and go-alias-none-no-hinting.png; on the latter, they are just awkward. Compare this to how a set of ubiquitous fonts from Microsoft is rendered with the same settings: ms-alias-none-no-hinting.png -- they look just great. For completeness, go-alias-none-full-hinting.png shows that hinting apparently does not affect the rendering. (All the screenshots have all text rendered at 12pt on a 97 DPI display.) I'm not sure whether this can be fixed (as I have basically zero knowledge of the inner workings of True/Open-Type fonts) but I would very much like it fixed, if at all possible. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
