Can we get fonts as sharp as Windows?

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landemaine
Feb 12, 2007
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I was comparing my fonts in Photoshop with those of Windows. I can’t have fonts as sharp as Windows. Here’s the difference:

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/7598/fontsfj5.png

The one on top is Trebuchet MS in Windows and the one at the bottom is the same font (Smooth) in Photoshop. I tried also Strong, Sharp and Crisp.

How can I solve it?
Thanks,

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Tacit
Feb 12, 2007
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"Charles A. Landemaine" wrote:

The one on top is Trebuchet MS in Windows and the one at the bottom is the same font (Smooth) in Photoshop. I tried also Strong, Sharp and Crisp.

How can I solve it?

Set the Anti-Aliasing to "NONE".

Be aware that this only looks good at certain point sizes; at other point sizes, it does not.


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landemaine
Feb 13, 2007
Set the Anti-Aliasing to "NONE".

But I don’t like when antialiasing is turnt off at small sizes… 🙁
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Nicholas Sherlock
Feb 14, 2007
Charles A. Landemaine wrote:
I was comparing my fonts in Photoshop with those of Windows. I can’t have fonts as sharp as Windows. Here’s the difference:

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/7598/fontsfj5.png

The one on top is Trebuchet MS in Windows and the one at the bottom is the same font (Smooth) in Photoshop. I tried also Strong, Sharp and Crisp.

The font at the top uses ClearType, which uses colours around the edge of the letters to make it appear sharper on LCDs (Zoom in in Photoshop to see). It has much the same effect as anti-aliasing on CRT monitors. It looks awful if your LCD has a different sub-pixel order to the setting used to render the text. Since good looking ClearType is device specific, it doesn’t make much sense to render it in a raster image.

Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock


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