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

Anj Tuesday anj.tuesday at gmx.net
Fri Nov 4 11:44:51 UTC 2011


They're very good screen fonts but don't work *that* well without 
anti-aliasing. Thanks for the suggestion!
Anja

On 03/11/11 22:39, Steve Riley wrote:
> Have you tried the Droid fonts? Perhaps they look OK
> un-anti-aliased. ______________ *Steve Riley* stvrly at gmail.com +1
> (206) 412-1097
>
> 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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