From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 23 00:56:28 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5837E16A41F for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 00:56:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joe@osoft.us) Received: from mail.osoft.us (osoft.us [67.14.192.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09FEF43D48 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 00:56:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joe@osoft.us) Received: from [10.0.1.105] (adsl-65-67-81-97.dsl.ltrkar.swbell.net [65.67.81.97]) by mail.osoft.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44139B833; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:56:27 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <430A7417.30008@osoft.us> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:55:51 -0500 From: Joe Koberg User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Gallatin References: <17161.51084.456346.976929@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <1124715244.75167.40.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> <17161.53691.614602.758290@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <1124717191.75167.48.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> <17161.55703.734118.584359@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20050822170139.lfz7hz7xbocs0coc@netchild.homeip.net> <17161.60804.429088.284519@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <17161.60804.429088.284519@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:48:07 +0000 Cc: Alexander Leidinger , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Beta2: Nice job! / xorg Anti Aliasing X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 00:56:28 -0000 Andrew Gallatin wrote: >Alexander Leidinger writes: > > Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > > > > Ah, so the deal is that you actually don't like the antialiasing > > > > smoothness we all love. Hmm. > > > > > > Maybe it is something wrong with my eyes? > > > > Maybe you have better eyes than other people? > >I've always had better than 20:20 vision, so I suppose that >could be it. Maybe I need to get some computer glasses >that make everything blurry :) > > > Or you use the default anti-aliasing instead of subpixel anti-aliasing. > >I've tried various things in my ~/.fonts.conf. It currently >looks like this: > > Heres my experience in the quest for sharp, beautiful fonts: 1. get the microsoft web fonts. They are VERY nice. Much better than Vera. 2. turn on the bytecode interpreter in freetype if you dont mind violating a truetype patent. I think this is a compile-time option. 3. Turn OFF autohinting - i find that font shapes are much better without it, BUT thin strokes in the middle of two pixels will make two light grey pixels. This looks most like MacOS to me. 4. If you turn on subpixel AA, turn on the autohinter or you will get colored fringes. (the autohinter lines up strokes to pixel centers - eliminating the "grey" pixels that will turn colors under subpixel AA.) 5. Dont forget to try each autohinting style. Joe Koberg Joe at Osoft dot US