Re: Font type and size was (QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03)

2008-06-17 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
This inspires me to do a different calculation based on biological and physical facts: According to (German) Wikipedia http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auflösungsvermögen the human eye can separate two distinct points if they are displaced in an angle of 2' (2 minutes, i.e. 0.0333 degrees).

Re: Font type and size was (QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03)

2008-06-16 Thread Hans L
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Dale Schumacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If your current display is around 150dpi, you can see what QVGA would be like with something like this: xterm -fn '*-clean-*--6-*-c-40*' This will give you a terminal window with a 4x6 font cell (3x5 for characters +

Re: Font type and size was (QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03)

2008-06-11 Thread David Pottage
On Wed, June 11, 2008 2:59 am, Dale Schumacher wrote: If your current display is around 150dpi, you can see what QVGA would be like with something like this: xterm -fn '*-clean-*--6-*-c-40*' This will give you a terminal window with a 4x6 font cell (3x5 for characters + 1px spacing).

Re: Font type and size was (QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03)

2008-06-11 Thread David Samblas Martinez
Thanks Dale, as David says it's this simply test makes the things very clear, whit bold there's is no way but as I said before this font on the freerunner can be used to previews, icons and a way to have various text files opens at time and intuit of what's about and then to work use the second

Re: Font type and size was (QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03)

2008-06-10 Thread David Samblas Martinez
But I have no knowlege about this font, hehehe I like it. ~70 chars/line in the example of 291 pixels so in a 640 will be about ~160 chars in one line (penden to confirm the minimum distance to be readable maybe 3 cm hehehe well now seriouly I was able to read the example in a 1280x768 10.6

Re: Font type and size was (QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03)

2008-06-10 Thread Dale Schumacher
If your current display is around 150dpi, you can see what QVGA would be like with something like this: xterm -fn '*-clean-*--6-*-c-40*' This will give you a terminal window with a 4x6 font cell (3x5 for characters + 1px spacing). Note that the automatic smear bold make this font unreadable,