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JPEGs for text examples! I'm sorry, but a big part of the apparent differences between the different font examples comes from compression artifacts. It's not th
by Ma8ee 13y ago
JPEGs for text examples! I'm sorry, but a big part of the apparent differences between the different font examples comes from compression artifacts. It's not that Helvetica is a inherently brighter font than Lucinda Grand, see e.g. the first example. Just judging from the images, the difference in readability of the different fonts might come as much from how well they compress as anything else.
- stevep98 13y agoThe images are also scaled down to 82% of the original size when viewed inline in the document. Another related issue is that when you screenshot something, you're not capturing any of the enhancements that are made by technology such as Cleartype for rendering fonts on LCD displays. (http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ClearTypeInfo.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ClearTypeInfo.mspx)