On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 10:34 PM, Alexei Podtelezhnikov <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Nikolaus Waxweiler <[email protected]> > wrote: >>> My monitor is sRGB. Yours is likely too. We are looking at the corrected >>> glyphs. >> >> No we aren't, precisely because of our sRGB monitors. The bitmaps FreeType >> produces wouldn't need to be corrected if our monitors had a gamma curve of >> 1.0 (= linear space), where 1 + 1 = 2. But sRGB describes a gamma curve >> approximating 2.2. So unless this is accounted for, we are looking at >> uncorrected glyphs :) > > Perhaps, this is the explanation I was looking for. You are basically > saying that sRGB imposed by the monitor is not a good idea for high > contrast text rendering and has to be undone. I can buy that. So when > you talk about gamma of about 2 you actually mean power of about 1/2. > I was confused.
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