fonts qstns.

[Matthew Seaman]

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On 02/06/2010 04:21:53, Bernt Hansson wrote:
> 2010-05-30 09:51, Gary Kline skrev:
>>
>>     according to one fellow, the top display shows only 72dpi;
>>     that is why sans serif [like arial] render better than, say,
>>     times.  does this still hold?
> 
> No it does not. My display has 96 DPI and it is 12-15 years old and
> 35 Kg.

Even that is pretty coarse nowadays.  This Mac does 1920x1200 on a
display approximately 370x230mm.  Which is 132dpi.

Even so, you still need special fonts to display clearly on screen:
unless the hinting is done very carefully, letter spacing will appear to
vary arbitrarily on anything below about 200dpi.  Sans-serif similarly
works well when there are fewer pixels per glyph.  However, once you
start printing, it's a different story.  Even a really cheap laser
printer will do 600dpi nowadays, and most are better than that.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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