http://www.antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/index.html http://www.antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/index.h... This is a few years old now, bu

http://www.antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/index.html http://www.antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/index.h... This is a few years old now, but is still one of the better explanations of the issues involved in modern font rasterization, with emphasis on how Microsoft's likely held back the entire industry by only realistically supporting widget fonts at the standard 96ppi. Really, anything other than the stock Arial 10pt/96ppi is going to cause layout issues. In an effort to very-aggressively hint that font so it looks consistent, they throw out horizontal accuracy by rounding to pixel boundaries. Per-letter. Ouch. The best part of the paper, though, is this image that moves the sentence to the right exactly 1/10 pixel each line: http://www.antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/sample_arial_1tenth_shift.png http://www.antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/sample_...