joeycastillo
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4 years ago Any plans to introduce anti-aliased text rendering?
Not at this time. The font that the Open Book uses to support world languages, GNU Unifont, is a 1-bit bitmap font, so for the core use case 1-bit mode is sufficient. In addition, the grayscale mode takes slightly longer to display; I haven't done tests of the reading experience using grayscale mode, but my instinct is that I want the fastest possible page turning experience, which the 1-bit mode delivers.
Having said that, there's nothing stopping you from writing code that does antialiased font rendering; I'm just not imagining that as part of the software I plan to develop for it.
One last thing to note is that the grayscale mode and the faster 1-bit modes are exclusive; you can't, say, display a grayscale page, and then do a fast partial update of a smaller area. Doing this will kind of "snap" the grays to either a black value or a white value. This all leads me to want to treat grayscale mode as a mode specifically for displaying full-screen images or diagrams, while sticking to 1-bit modes for menus, user interfaces and the core reading experience.
It looks like the display does support greyscale, but currently the text is rendered with hard edges. Any plans to introduce anti-aliased text rendering?