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Article #2599Re: System 7.0 speculations: Hot Scoop?
From: Steve Dorner
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 1989 15:13
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 1989 15:13
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In article <24388@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> truel@silver.bacs.indiana.edu
(Robert Truel) writes about anti-aliasing being good for readibility:
>I don't have the studies, but I believe that the studies suggesting that
>readability increases was done either be IBM (as suggested on the net) or
>XEROX (my belief).
I remember seeing an article about research DEC had done in creating legible
screen fonts. The claim in that article was that jaggies ARE NOT THE PROBLEM;
that real benefits lie in serifs, proper letter shapes, and proper stroke
weights. (Now, anti-aliasing may indeed help with stroke weights.) The
fonts touted in the article were not smooth at all, as I remember.
--
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!bellcore!rutgers!mailrus!ncar!tank!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!news From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: System 7.0 speculations: Hot Scoop? Message-ID: <1989Aug8.151335.8232@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 8 Aug 89 15:13:35 GMT References: <587GDAU100@BGUVM> <26548@amdcad.AMD.COM> <24101@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <458@lloyd.camex.uucp> <3300@internal.Apple.COM> <24388@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Reply-To: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lines: 18