Il giorno mer, 11/07/2007 alle 23.03 +0200, Damien Pollet ha scritto:
> On 10/07/07, Mikael Kindborg <mikael.kindborg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yes, now when I look at the Vera Sans fonts I use, they are not at all sharp.
> > Giovanni's fonts look better, and Juan's rendering technique looks very good!
> 
> I think Juan rendered his fonts on windows, which favors sharpness at
> the cost of distorting the font shapes (they align the curves to the
> pixel grid).
> Giovanni uses freetype or a similar algorithm which does precise font
> rendering (different fonts stay recognizable at small sizes) but looks
> more blurry. As a typo-and-mac-fanatic, I prefer this approach :D

Actually, the blur comes from Squeak's own TTF engine. Using the
FreeType plugin I get fonts that look very good on screen.
I'd post a screenshot, but somehow every screenshot I take of my
FreeTypePlugin-enabled image looks like crap on my Fedora Linux box.
Does anyone know why?

	Giovanni