IMHO: there is no need for grayscale hinting if you do not want to support IE6 which some consider not only webfont-incompatible, but even web-incompatible. That is: when you are deciding which font to use for your website it is better to look at the visitor browsers’ statistics rather than OS statistics.
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I would prefer to see the extreme cases (Win XP, ClearType off and on) too, as these would show the actual quality of hinting (as far as I know, the Mac rendering does not make any use of TrueType hintning/instuctions).īesides, something I have realized thanks to Ross Mills from Tiro Typeworks: you can assume that there are not many XP users with ClearType switched off since IE7 came with the ClearType on by default => everybody who updated to IE7 or 8 (and I think people tend to update IE faithfully) has ClearType on unless they switched it off (bad idea :). Now I learn they are Mac? That is slightly confusing, but I understand it would be too much visual information.
Hi Stephen, when I read the article (very quickly I have to admit), I thought all of the examples are using grayscaling (non-ClearType rendering on XP) for which most of these look remarkably well. If we had more time I’d love to do a more comprehensive post with comparisons in all the common rendering modes. Those fonts are shown again below, all with OS X Core Text rendering.
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Karsten – The image at the top is to show the effect of Windows Standard Smoothing. As is, the three ones rasterized via “Standard” stand out unfavorably since the collection of screenshots causes me to compare them with other typefaces rasterized via “ClearType” rather than “Standard” too. Hi Stephen, I would have preferred to see “ClearType” and “Standard” rasterization for all of the typefaces - so that comparison is possible at all.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this wide subject of screen (serif) font rendering :) I’m always impressed by the rendering quality of FF Meta Serif Web on XP (even with CT in grey-scale mode and more even when it’s turned off).Ī great typeface for screen, no doubt on that.
Thanks a lot for this really useful review.
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