Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 07:16:20 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Bernt Hansson <bernt@bah.homeip.net> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: fonts qstns. Message-ID: <4C05F734.1060404@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4C05CE51.3090406@bah.homeip.net> References: <20100529211104.GA55411@thought.org> <4C020BDA.9070508@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20100530075135.GA9594@thought.org> <4C05CE51.3090406@bah.homeip.net>
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On 02/06/2010 04:21:53, Bernt Hansson wrote:
> 2010-05-30 09:51, Gary Kline skrev:
>>
>> according to one fellow, the top display shows only 72dpi;
>> that is why sans serif [like arial] render better than, say,
>> times. does this still hold?
>
> No it does not. My display has 96 DPI and it is 12-15 years old and
> 35 Kg.
Even that is pretty coarse nowadays. This Mac does 1920x1200 on a
display approximately 370x230mm. Which is 132dpi.
Even so, you still need special fonts to display clearly on screen:
unless the hinting is done very carefully, letter spacing will appear to
vary arbitrarily on anything below about 200dpi. Sans-serif similarly
works well when there are fewer pixels per glyph. However, once you
start printing, it's a different story. Even a really cheap laser
printer will do 600dpi nowadays, and most are better than that.
Cheers,
Matthew
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