Kelly... The second sentence below is more or less true only for LCD displays. It is not true for CRT displays. The electron beam in a CRT cannot illuminate individual pictures on the CRT face. It merely "brushes" across them, through what is known as a shadow mask, with a not-perfectly-defined beam size. That's why even good CRT displays seem "soft" after having used a good LCD display for a while.
The last sentence is definitely not true, although the chance of it being valid are better if the native resolution of an LCD display matches the display resolution of the graphics adapter. If the graphics card setting does not match the native resolution of the monitor, aliasing artifacts in the viewed image can cause greater legibility issues with fonts, especially small ones. Dennis Brunnenmeyer Cedar Ridge Systems. ********************************************************* At 12:27 PM 5/12/2008, Kelly McDaniel wrote: >On the computer display, the characters and background are formed from >pixels. Pixels have smooth, parallel edges that enclose their color. >Sans serif fonts appear crispier on the display because the character >edge is more likely to mate with a pixel edge. Dennis Brunnenmeyer Director of Engineering CEDAR RIDGE SYSTEMS 15019 Rattlesnake Road Grass Valley, CA 95945-8710 Office: (530) 477-9015 Fax: (530) 477-9085 Mobile: (530) 320-9025 eMail: dennisb /at/ chronometrics /dot/ com
