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How well, if at all, do these fonts scale upwards?
by arnorhs 17y ago
How well, if at all, do these fonts scale upwards?
- henrikschroder 17y agoNot at all of course, they're bitmap fonts that rely on subpixel rendering.
- henrikschroder 17y agoBasically: This font is created such that it looks good when subpixel-rendered at a size of 3px. If you wanted text larger than 3px, you would not ever want to use this font, you would use something else that can either be regularly rendered at your chosen size, or subpixel-rendered at your chosen size.
- romland 17y agoIt's a bitmap font, so it scales as any pixels would but far from well when it comes to readability. If you look at the 1600% up-scale you get a good idea what I am talking about. I remember making these types of fonts myself back in the Amiga days just to fit it on bootsector(s) (memory fails me here, was it one or two?). The difference then was that sub pixel rendering was not an option, and fixed width fonts at this size always looked bad (i vs m), so you'd have to be careful how you wrote things. :-) Without having ever experimented with subpixel rendering I am intrigued by the fact that « is made a whole lot more "blue" than » -- spontaneously one would think it would simply be a matter of mirroring the glyphs (obviously not) :)
- ComputerGuru 17y agoThe subpixels are RGB in that order. So the heavier "image concentration" on the right side means there'd be more blue.
- thristian 17y agoIf you want to experiment with subpixel rendering, and you have a reasonably modern Firefox, I made a subpixel-rendering toy a while ago: http://zork.net/~st/Toys/subpixel-sketch.html http://zork.net/~st/Toys/subpixel-sketch.html If you don't have a modern Firefox, there's a screenshot here: http://zork.net/~st/Toys/subpixel-sketch.png http://zork.net/~st/Toys/subpixel-sketch.png
- PebblesRox 17y agoThat's neat, but I wish I could click and drag to change multiple pixels at once, instead of clicking and clicking and clicking.
- goodside 17y agoThis well: http://grab.by/2eT3 http://grab.by/2eT3 That's from the Mac OS X zoom function. Interestingly, it's far more readable than the zoomed-in graphic on their page.