Playing With ClearType Artifacts
Chester MBarCamp Rochester #5
What is Font Smoothing?
Anti-aliasing is applied to the fonts to make them look smoother
and easier to read.
Takes out the jaggies.
What is ClearType?
Computer monitors have three sub-pixels.
Using different colors, only some of the sub-pixels can be
activated, tripling the horizontal resolution.
What is ClearType?
1. Original outline.2. No font smoothing.3. ClearType.
What is ClearType?
What Can I Do With These Artifacts?
Exaggerate them for comedic effect.
Stare at them until your eyes go funny.
Explore the borders of legibility.
Fun 3D Effects!
Fun 3D Effects!
Credits
Some images taken from Microsoft's page on ClearType:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ClearTypeInfo.mspx
Images made with MS Paint (for the artifacts) and GIMP.
My blog: http://xwdishere.tubmlr.com/ (slides will be linked
from there, also more cleartype fun!)
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