On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 23:22:38 +0100, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote: > On Donnerstag, 31. Dezember 2020 05:23:53 CET Lawrence D'Oliveiro > wrote: > >> That sharpness comes at the expense of distortion. Hinting is all >> about hacking the shapes of glyphs to fit the pixel grid -- for >> example, getting rid of subtle curves and slants. Anti-aliasing >> gives you a way of representing these. > > Yeah, but one pixel at 100% opacity looks a whole lot better than 2 > pixel at 50% opacity (or whatever opacity you get after gamma > correction).
“Better” may not be better if you lose the original artist’s design. Typography is an art, after all. It’s all a tradeoff. Which is why it doesn’t make sense to use both together.
