On 10 August 2017 at 17:36, Jan Synacek <jsynacek@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 4:04 PM, Matthew Miller > <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 11:39:30AM +0200, Jan Synacek wrote: >>> > Bug 1469712 - font antialiasing/hinting is not working on Fedora 26 >>> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1469712 >>> Cheers, the solution from #1470509 did the trick. I'm quite puzzled as >>> to why people prefer looking at the blurred fonts, though. >> >> I don't prefer blurred fonts, but I prefer more-correct letter forms >> and nicer overall appearance of the page. > > Yes, I agree, but that's not what I see on my screen. Even if what I > see is "more correct" by some measure, it's still blurry and hurting > my eyesight. On the other hand, I totally understand that on some > people's displays the result might actually look better. Also, my eyes > are quite picky when it comes to staring at stuff for long periods of > time. > Tangentially to this discussion, I find a lot (most) of the new fonts (e.g. web fonts, which are really a huge variety, just look at fonts.google.com) just look awful on PC screen; so on my PC, they do look very nice shape-wise but the blurry/jagged edges do nag at me too much be usable. That's why I stick to the DejaVu Sans and Ubuntu font families. But then using those "new" fonts on my Android smartphone, they look great/awesome. The difference is that my desktop has a 24 inch monitor, 1920x1080 with 96-101 dpi, whereas my phone has a ~4.5/5 inch screen with 720x1280 and ~294 dpi. So the secret lies with the dpi, the higher the dpi the better those "new" fonts - which do not have hinting done by hand (by the font artists/devs) like the old font families (e.g. DejaVu Sans) had - will look. So I enjoy many more fonts on my 5 inch phone than I do on my 24 inch monitor :/ I think the solution to the problem will come when Hidpi monitors become more affordable, i.e. a 24/27/28 inch mointor that packs a 4K resolution. (Hopefully that will happen before most of us are too old to see clearly at all). -- Ahmad Samir _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
