The Ails Of Typographic Anti-Aliasing
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- Published on: November 2nd, 2009
- Published by: SmashingMagazine
- Written by: Thomas Giannattasio
- Topic(s): Anti-Aliasing, Typographic
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As printed typography enjoys the fruits of high-DPI glory, proudly displaying its beautiful curves and subtleties, its on-screen counterpart remains stifled by bulky pixels, living in a world of jagged edges, distorted letterforms and trimmed serifs. Until display manufacturers produce affordable 200 or 300 PPI monitors, we’ll have to rely on software advances to fix these problems.
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