For small type, I’m also one of the folks who prefer crisp bitmapped fonts over aa’ed type. Nobody reads documents using fonts this large, besides they’re scanned from a printed page – i can’t comment on the appearance on screen (the rendering) – and that’s what is really important.ītw, at large sizes the current font-smoothing technology is good, it fails at small sizes. Hm, these fonts are crafted well, but i don’t get the point what’s so special about them.Įxamples at smaller sizes would be necessary. So, I applaud Microsoft for doing something positive in this area, and I look forward to using these new fonts on KDE/Gnome, where they’ll be rendered correctly…lol ? Non-cleartype fonts suck for two reasons, firstly they’re always kerned awkwardly, secondly they scale terribly. This is insane when the font is black on white, it’s similarly nausiating to looking at jpegs which have been over-sharpened.įonts on OSX are good, BeOS was good, RiscOS was also good (and must have been one of the first OS’s to render the whole desktop anti-aliased, in the early 90’s) and KDE/Gnome have improved dramatically. They give me a headache because I can see the hideous blues and browns Microsoft have chosen for their “blending” colours. Not for me it doesn’t, ClearType is nasty on my CRTs, both at home on my Gateway and work on my ADI.
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If you’d like to see more of these typefaces (including Greek and Cyrillic characters), check them out here: Ĭonsidering how much better Windows renders fonts on-screen compared to every other OS out there, I’m really looking forward to fonts designed for screen use only and not print. Yes, this is at the expense of variety, but variety was not the goal. For the same reason, the fonts have coordinated vertical metrics, so that the linespacing remains constant whichever of the fonts you employ.
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So we can’t expect them to be sophisticated enough to figure out how to visually harmonise different typefaces through relative scaling, so the goal was to simplify this for them by making fonts that are at least reasonably harmonised. Remember that the huge majority of people using these fonts will not be typographers, but MS Word users. My Constantia type has a smaller x-height and longer extenders (hence, more ‘bookish’), and Luc’s Consolas monospaced font has a larger x-height the others are all the same. There was a conscious decision by the project planners that four of the six faces would have the same x-height so that they could be used together in the same line of text with ease. They aren’t supposed to look too different. Most of those typefaces don’t look that different from one another IMHO.