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Article #12051Anti-aliased fonts
From: John Major
Date: Fri, 04 May 1990 11:01
Date: Fri, 04 May 1990 11:01
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Back when Mac color first appeared (remember, Virginia?),
there was a flurry of requests for "fuzzy fonts", or
"anti-aliased" fonts, that subsided with disappointed sighs.
They are also known as "grey-scale" fonts, as the bitmap
representation uses levels of gray to smooth the edges of the
characters. They are *supposed* to be dramatically easier on
the eyes. Now, a excellent, shrink-wrapped tool has finally
arrived to create them -- FontStudio, by LetraSet. BUT -- has
anyone built any? Does anyone out there KNOW anything about
them? I started making my own, character by character, but
really now, there must be whole libraries out there of
bitmaps, right? Tell me it's true! So:
Does anyone have any grey-scale font bitmaps --
preferably 4 levels of grey, to go with the standard Apple cards?
Does anyone know of any articles or books that explain
the finer points of creating them? (for instance, is
4 bits of grey too little?)
Let's get the ball rolling on this one!
Thanks -
John Major
major@spcink.bbn.com
617/873-8165
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