Re: black
Re: black
- Subject: Re: black
- From: "Simson Garfinkel" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 08:08:01 -0500
John,
Thanks for your email. However, I think that you misunderstand my original
question. Whether or not you find the fonts more or less readable is perhaps
a matter of personal taste. But the fact that black is no longer present on
the majority of fonts is not an opinion, it is a fact. I'm generally a big
fan of anti-aliasing. But the OSX implementation delivers anti-aliasing by
removing black.
It's hard to deliver fonts that are both anti-aliased and black. As you
note, Photoshop does an okay job. But really, the proper way to do it is to
hand-edit the fonts and do bitmaps for the most popular sizes, and use
interpolation or mathematical generation for the others. That's the approach
that other operating systems take. I thought it was the approach that True
Type took, but for some reason, it's just not there.
Turning off the OSX anti-aliasing doesn't quite deliver what I want, since
that alone doesn't deliver the hand-edited fonts.
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