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How to: Font smoothing test


The real question is this:

I am trying to figure out the effect of font smoothing in my web page. On my LCD panel the text looks the same with font smoothing on/off.

Are there are any particular fonts that need smoothing. Can you suggest any example font best suited for font-smoothing (i.e. it gives good result on applying smoothing).


Solution

  • In theory all fonts should benefit, but in pratice how much they benefit depends both on the font used and the font rasterization technique used.

    A couple of good articles on font rasterization are How Sub-Pixel Font Rendering Works and Text Rasterization Exposures