You may have never heard of Sub-Pixel Antialising, but it’s the reason that fonts on recent Laptops equipped with WindowsXP are, well… screwed. Theoretically the Approach is quite nice, using the alignment of the colour cells of a Flat-Screen Monitor to improve the Antialising of the Font Rendering.
However, it’s mostly a geek toy, the difference is barley noticeably, and most of the time the screen looks worse.
And soon it’ll be obsolte. (Hopefully)
Why? Because Producers of Flat-Screen-Displays will hopefully get their ass together and provide us with some High Resolution Displays, and by that I mean a resolution at least twice as high as a current Display, without changing the size.
Obviously, on such a display the desire for such a stupid thing would be next to Zero
-Richard
Tags Rant, Geek Documents
June 24th, 2005 at 9:12
how come you are concerned about fonts not looking nice on windows xp laptops? how cares?
June 24th, 2005 at 9:24
I couldn’t care less, it just serves as a simple example to explain the concept
-Richard