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antijingoist / open-dyslexic

What I intend to be an opensource font for dyslexics and for high readability
http://dyslexicfonts.com
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Font Smoothing in Windows #5

Closed antijingoist closed 11 years ago

antijingoist commented 12 years ago

Font looks choppy and pixelated on windows XP machines, and Chrome on windows. This is because of both using an older font render that doesn't work well and using pixel-hammering.

antijingoist commented 12 years ago

Work-around is to use GDI++ on affected machines or increase font-size. can work on fixing font-rendering on windows, but it's time-consuming. Anyone that wants to pick this up, go ahead. Most modern font-smoothing techniques render typefaces much better than Windows, which breaks even it's own fonts occasionally.

antijingoist commented 11 years ago

Can anyone get me a list of all the vertical and horizontal stems for each character and start listing them here? I need it to finish the smoothing in windows, but its a huuuuuuuge project, and something I can't do quickly on my own. Help? Perhaps put it in a text file? I just need to make it a list in the glyphs font-info window.

antijingoist commented 11 years ago

Spent a good amount of time figuring out stem widths on characters. Probably needs improvement, but I need windows users to try it out and see how it looks. Anyone? http://www.box.com/shared/c75u511z47bl18tahtj7

antijingoist commented 11 years ago

All tests seem to indicate everyone is happy with this. closing issue.