> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Adam Twardoch
> It's possible that in a few years, the LCD monitors will have a higher > resolution so that larger font sizes (in pixels) will be used for typical > screen presentation. More pixels -- less elaborate hinting required. > > I don't think hinting will completely go away, but I'm sure the necessity to > tweak single pixels will gradually disappear. This may happen, but I think it will take a while. Even if the majority of desktop displays were to increase in ppi resolution, there will be for some time products that use lower res displays. And note that desktop displays have *not* be increasing in ppi as rapidly as you might think. Try to buy an LCD monitor with better than 96ppi, for instance. So, unless the default text sizes start increasing, the typical *pixels-per-em* amount isn't changing that fast. (In the past few years, I have used some high ppi combinations: I used to use a 22" display at 1920 x 1440, giving around 115ppi; and now I'm using a laptop doing 1920x1200 on a 1.6 aspect ration 15.5" display, giving not quite 150ppi (yum :-). This is using default text sizes, and in both situations, people looking over my shoulder would regularly ask how I could read stuff that small -- in spite of the higher ppem I had than they did on their machines.) There's no getting around the fact that hinting of 8pt type (fairly common in UI text) is still going to be important for some time. Peter Peter Constable Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies Microsoft Windows Division
