Textorize: Pristine font rendering for the web

by profquail • 16 years ago

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hackermom• 16 years ago

the guy seems overly obsessed, almost zealous, about sub-pixel aliasing, as if entirely oblivious to OLED technology, thinking that LCD panels will be the around forever.

ZeroGravitas2• 16 years ago

Worse, it won't work on iPhone, iPads or any similar device with a standard LCD when rotated 3 out of 4 possible directions.

The right answer is to just use text, it'll look great on all those devices and more. Yes, it'll look crappy on IE. So does everything else.

Also, since it's bash Adobe month: why does the anti-aliasing in Photoshop suck so badly? Those examples are terrible.

seldo• 16 years ago

Yeah, it's not clear to me why one shouldn't just use text and let the OS sort this out.

SlyShy• 16 years ago

I don't think it's a huge issue, but what the point of is when you want to use a non-websafe font, then you've got to use one of these font replacement schemes. And those don't do subpixel rendering. And so you'd use this. Presumably.

You certainly wouldn't use it for text that is websafe, like Georgia, because yes, the operating system can do its own subpixel rendering in that instance.

bitwize2• 16 years ago

Because Apple's is the only OS that gets this crucial bit right?

frozendevil• 16 years ago

Wait. Is it 1998 again? When did we go back to using images for text?

Textorize: Pristine font rendering for the web

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