From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4B87D447.7000708@maht0x0r.net> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:01:43 +0000 From: matt User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20060326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <14ec7b181002152057p7128c56fre09bee50d96e28ae@mail.gmail.com> <14ec7b181002170844s17b0b37bve34e5e7fe36ec258@mail.gmail.com> <14ec7b181002251345n5cea8b70nd05962d8b6386732@mail.gmail.com> <14ec7b181002251536jc123c89vf5d5814144ddd9ac@mail.gmail.com> <372505d10503442e41069b7ff901c512@ladd.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: <372505d10503442e41069b7ff901c512@ladd.quanstro.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] problem using a vera font in rio Topicbox-Message-UUID: dc76d1ac-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >>i don't know. it's not libfreetype. fontsrv asks the OS X >>graphics code to render each glyph into a box and then >>concatenates the boxes to make the subfont. >>all the text was noticeably lighter (more grey) >>than in your screen shot when i put them side by side. >> >> > >this is due to apple's algorithm for rendering glyphs. > I don't know if it is relevant but OSX uses a 1.8 Gamma whereas PC's (& TVs) use 2.2