[Mageia-dev] new fonts?

Tue Sep 25 04:13:03 CEST 2012

On 2012-09-24 13:21 (GMT-0400) Liam R E Quin composed:
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+> . rendering quality - irregularities tend to be distracting and cause
+> fatigue but people often say they like them at first;
+
+Rendering quality is highly influenced by screen pixel density. The higher 
+the density, the more pixels are required to render any glyph at a given 
+physical size. As density increases, the effects of smoothing techniques 
+diminish, eventually having no impact if density is high enough or viewing 
+distance is longer. Kerning, character spacing an accuracy also improve as 
+density increases, causing glyphs to render more faithfully to their designs.
+
+The converse is that on low density screens, there's more variability that 
+readers can be sensitive to. Those who are sensitive do well to upgrade to 
+higher quality (higher pixel density) display devices. Even the apparent 20% 
+jump from 100 to 120 can be striking. The reality is the density increase is 
+a function of the squares of 100 and 120: 44%!
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