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In article <1989Aug8.151335.8232@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes:
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>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.

However, you will note that unless you have very high screen resolution, you cannot
display proper serifs or even really good letter shapes.  Meanwhile, if you anti-
alias, you can use a gray pixel where a serif is supposed to appear, and the eye
will interpret it as a serif.  Also, by using gray pixels, you can make the eye
perceive finer variations in letter shape, and of course, stroke weight.

--Mike

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