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Fonts look much better on 4k screens with 2x scaling than on 1440p: https://tonsky.me/blog/monitors/ https://tonsky.me/blog/monitors/ If you stare at text all
by reissbaker 5y ago
Fonts look much better on 4k screens with 2x scaling than on 1440p: https://tonsky.me/blog/monitors/ https://tonsky.me/blog/monitors/
If you stare at text all day, 4k is pretty nice. The difference between 4k and 1440p is easily noticeable to me even on very small displays, like 15" laptops. I have a 1440p gaming laptop, and the less-sharp text is slightly annoying; I otherwise love it as a laptop, though, so I live with 1440p since it's a fairly small screen anyway. On larger displays like an external monitor I definitely wouldn't use 1440p.
- nickjj 5y agoFrom what I understand 200% 4k is the same screen real estate as 1080p. It's a trade off I suppose. I would much prefer 1440p on a smaller monitor (like a 25") which offers pretty good DPI. I can read HN's text at 1:1 scaling from around 3 feet away and I wear glasses, 4 feet is doable too but it starts to get blurry. In my day to day I stand a little further than an arm's length away.