Does anybody know (of) clean fonts without anti-aliasing?

[Steve Riley]

Have you tried the Droid fonts? Perhaps they look OK un-anti-aliased.
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On 2011-11-03 14:26, Anj Tuesday wrote:
> Oh, the anti-aliasing looks just fine! I just get retro sometimes and
> prefer to see 'exact' pixels.
>
> Yes, the MS fonts are pretty ok without anti-aliasing, and Tahoma is 
> still my first choice for a sans-serif non-anti-aliased font, but I'm 
> tired to death of them...
>
> Regards,
> Anja
>
> On 03/11/11 21:58, Mark Greenwood wrote:
>>
>> Fonts aren't generally designed to look right without anti-aliasing.
>>
>> That said, the Verdana font was designed specifically to look clear 
>> on LCDs. You can get it by installing the msttcorefonts package.
>>
>> If anti-aliasing looks really bad, then it's possibly your graphics 
>> driver; on my system the anti-aliasing is horrible with the nouveau 
>> driver but with the proprietary nvidia driver it's better than on my 
>> Windows 7 machines.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>>
>> On 3 Nov 2011, at 20:33, Anj Tuesday wrote:
>>
>>> Hello, list!
>>>
>>> Most of the fonts I've tried don't look clean at *any* point size
>>> without anti-aliasing. So I'm currently using Tahoma (sans serif),
>>> Lucida Bright (serif), and Liberation Mono or Courier 10 Pitch
>>> (monospace). But they're a little boring. Can anyone think of
>>> alternatives?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Anja
>>>
>>> PS: I don't hate anti-aliasing but sometimes I like pixelly clarity...
>>>
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