From: Albert Skye <mistlail@yahoo.co.uk>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] problem using a vera font in rio
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 10:42:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100308104220549422.babfd71b@yahoo.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <372505d10503442e41069b7ff901c512@ladd.quanstro.net>
An interesting article on text rasterization algorithms:
http://www.antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/index.html
After evaluating many fonts for programming, I found Verdana to be the most readable, for the same reasons described here (though I use 11pt anti-aliased by OS X):
http://nickgravgaard.com/cgi-bin/elastictabstopsnews/blosxom.cgi/2009/12/22
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-08 18:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-14 11:21 Rudolf Sykora
2010-02-14 18:34 ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-14 19:09 ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-02-14 19:52 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-02-15 4:15 ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-16 3:39 ` Russ Cox
2010-02-16 4:35 ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-16 4:57 ` andrey mirtchovski
2010-02-16 5:07 ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-16 6:58 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2010-02-17 16:31 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-02-17 16:44 ` andrey mirtchovski
2010-02-25 21:45 ` andrey mirtchovski
2010-02-25 22:01 ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-25 23:08 ` Russ Cox
2010-02-25 23:36 ` andrey mirtchovski
2010-02-26 2:11 ` Russ Cox
2010-02-26 2:43 ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-26 2:53 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-02 16:49 ` [9fans] int errno / errno.h patch EBo
2010-03-03 5:15 ` Russ Cox
2010-03-03 14:02 ` EBo
2010-03-03 17:59 ` Charles Forsyth
2010-02-26 14:01 ` [9fans] problem using a vera font in rio matt
2010-02-26 16:37 ` david bulkow
2010-03-08 18:42 ` Albert Skye [this message]
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