On 19/04/09 20:35, Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado wrote: > > Saluton Tony :) > > On Sun 19 Apr 2009 19:47 +0200, Tony Mechelynck<[email protected]> dixit: [...] > I've used non aliased fonts for years, and I must confess that I prefer > aliased fonts. While certainly aliasing can make fonts less crisp, the > better shaping makes the letters more readable, specially on LCDs. On > CRTs I don't notice a great difference, and probably I prefer non > aliased fonts, but on LCDs I find aliased fonts much easier to read and > my eyes are less tired after reading text for a long while, specially if > I must use smaller font sizes to fit more information on the screen.
My desktop computer's screen is a CRT run at 1024 x 768 x 16777216. Its diagonal is (now where's my ruler? Ah, here) 38 cm, which means (let's use Vim's new floating-point feature to compute that) 38/2.54 = 15 in, give or take 1/25 in. (about 1 mm) which is within the limits of experimental error. > >> In my GTK2 gvim, the 'guifont' I have chosen (Bitstream Vera Sans Mono >> 7) is perfectly readable at my reading distance (arm's length) with my >> eyes and (slightly convergent) eyeglasses despite its small size. > > I can read BVSM 7 at arm's length, even with aliasing O:) On my new > laptop with Ubuntu Jaunty I can use Vim on a terminal emulator at font > size 8 because of the increased resolution of the laptop's LCD and the > improved subpixel smoothing (although I prefer a bigger font, let's say > 9-10 points), but in my "big" PC I must use at least 11 points with > DejaVu Sans Mono or Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, and with aliasing. Without > aliasing I need a bigger font to keep my eyes from tiredness... I've had excellent eyesight most of my life, but now (with old age, at not even 60, ah lala) I need glasses to read. The ones I'm wearing at the moment seem excellent for my sight, no fatigue at all. > > In my case, aliasing helps a lot, because being myopic I don't get > "crispy" fonts without aliasing for a start, so getting better shapes > helps a lot in my case. [...] IIUC, aliasing gives better curves at large sizes while non-aliasing gives crispier fonts at small sizes. Best regards, Tony. -- How doth the VAX's C-compiler Improve its object code. And even as we speak does it Increase the system load. How patiently it seems to run And spit out error flags, While users, with frustration, all Tear all their clothes to rags. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
