jacoxnet | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 19 2007 | apple, microsoft
Fascinating comparison of the font philosophy of the two companies, reflecting deeper truths about them as well.
Quoted: Apple and Microsoft have always disagreed in how to display fonts on computer displays. Today, both companies are using sub-pixel rendering to coax sharper-looking fonts out ...
- mike - Jun 20 2007
- jacoxnet - Jun 21 2007
You must be Jim's friend before you can comment on this Fave.Interesting post. Even though I'm a Windows user, I think I like the Apple fonts better - more print-like and not as harsh. Print has 100's of years of design behind it; I think the close we get to that on the screen, the better our documents will look. Apple's approach wins out as screen resolutions increase, too.
Does Apple's approach win out, or does Microsoft's approach (of hand-crafting sub-pixel rendering for anti-aliasing) just become unnecessary. I assume that, at a high enough resolution, both systems would look virtually the same
Send Jim a friend request or a personal message instead.