tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246987755651065286.post7229277470135556109..comments2024-02-22T16:15:42.388-08:00Comments on cbloom rants: 05-12-10 - Cleartypecbloomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10714564834899413045noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246987755651065286.post-11288206394774153192010-05-13T12:13:49.365-07:002010-05-13T12:13:49.365-07:00"but you've already got color fringing of..."but you've already got color fringing of your black-on-white text even WITHOUT using ClearType if you're on an LCD monitor. [...]"<br /><br />Hmmm that's an interesting point. But for some reason I don't see the color fringing with cleartype off. I'm just randomly guessing but I presume it's because with cleartype off, the color fringe is always the same everywhere - slightly blueish on one side, slightly reddish on the other (or whatever), whereas with cleartype on, the color fridge changes for different characters. Presumably the color fringes that are all the same get ignored more easily. Even if I put my face right on the monitor it's hard to see a color fringe with cleartype off.<br /><br />But really the color fringing is not the worst problem, it's the blurriness due to the use of non-raster fonts and trying to anti-alias curves at low res. Now there do exist TTF fonts that are so heavily hinted that they behave just like raster fonts, but that's just a workaround really.cbloomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10714564834899413045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246987755651065286.post-3793045490211468402010-05-13T11:44:30.652-07:002010-05-13T11:44:30.652-07:00Not to deny your personal preference, nor deny tha...Not to deny your personal preference, nor deny that your preference is common, nor that that article is lame...<br /><br />but you've <i>already</i> got color fringing of your black-on-white text even WITHOUT using ClearType if you're on an LCD monitor. That's kind of the point. If you draw a bunch of one-pixel lines vertically, they consist of the three colors adjacent to each other. If you shift all the lines a subpixel to the right, it should be no more or less objectionable. There's no inherent "better white" to the normal alignment.<br /><br />Now, although ClearType may not <i>introduce</i> color fringing, it's obviously a different flavor of color fringing; it's got multiple different colors of fringing at different points and I'm sure that's far more objectionable. <br /><br />Maybe the regular color fringing may even disappears 100% due to visual adaptation or something, I don't know. I doubt it disappears 100%, but I can imagine it's a lot less noticeable.<br /><br />Actually this Courier font I'm typing in this form has pretty obvious coloration now that I look for it, way more obviously than the text of the posted comment that's in... whatever sans-serif font that is. Actually, the Courier coloration reminds me of the artifacting in hires on the Apple ][ and Atari 8-bit. Nostalgia value! <br /><br />(Hmm, if that was just due to NTSC's encoding of phase, does that mean the TV images themselves had a less-than-280-horizontal-pixel effective resolution?)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246987755651065286.post-29433811352260927642010-05-13T11:03:44.485-07:002010-05-13T11:03:44.485-07:00I happen to like Inconsolata + ClearType (really, ...I happen to like Inconsolata + ClearType (really, whatever subpixel junk Ubuntu is doing, which is actually worse), but I also use 14-pt fonts on a 30" monitor.<br /><br />Do you do white text/black background, because that definitely messes us ClearType's gamma approximation, or whatever. Supposedly black text on white background is just better.won3dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09787472194187459747noreply@blogger.com