Does anyone else not like antialiased fonts?

fergus · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 99

Anti-Aliased Fonts => Good or Bad?

This is just a random post, but I have come to really dislike antialiased fonts. The more I look at them the more my eyes hurt... is anyone else like this or is it just me? Whenever I install a new system the first thing I do is edit fonts.conf to turn them off and install some nice M$ fonts to use. Any thoughts?

fergus

senectus · Guru Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 534

You'd love em if you had an lcd screen...
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Safrax · Guru Joined: 23 Apr 2002 Posts: 422

I fought and fought and fought with the antialiased fonts for months. For some reason Subpixel AA was always on, even when I had it turned off in the kde control panel and in fonts.conf and local.conf. I finally noticed GNOME didnt have this problem (KDE user before). I then further narrowed it down to the GNOME settings daemon (gnome-settings-daemon) as being the controller of fonts. I modified by .xinitrc to start gnome-settings-daemon, sleep for a second, and then launch KDE. That finally disabled Subpixel AA. My fonts are decent now. They look really great and dont hurt my eyes anymore, but I'm not happy with the solution to it in the slightest.

And yes I am using an LCD.

FormerSlacker · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 12:06 pm Post subject:

Personally, I love them, but I've grown to hate them on some setups as well.

Personally I like anti-aliased fonts in general, but there is a range of fonts that just are hard to read if aa is turned on. I find that font size 8-13 should not be anti-aliased and thats the way I have it setup on my box. I like my normal font to be 12 or 13. At that size, ttf fonts with no aa look very nice and very easy to read. Any bigger, and they begin to get blocky and really need some aa.

So yeah aa is good, you just have to find the range that works for you :p

fergus · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 99

i agree to that, I don't totally disable them only on the smaller fonts i think up to size 15. but above that I agree that anti aliased fonts area good thing.

shm · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 1:52 pm Post subject:

Since I got my LCD monitor, I've antialiased all fonts. On CRT, I didn't AA mid-ranges.

wilburpan · l33t Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 977

I really like antialiased fonts, but then again, my computers have monitors with pretty high resolutions -- my home piece of crap machine runs at either 1280x1024 or (most of the time) 1600x1200 and has a CRT monitor, and my laptop runs at 1600x1200. I also have my desktop environments set so that there is no minimum font size limit for antialiasing.

I can see how operating at lower resolutions would make antialiasing look bad.
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