Sugar's fonts

[Walter Bender]

> > The problem with serifs is that they often should be smaller
> > than a pixel for typical screen and font sizes. Well, that is
> > not generally possible, so one gets serifs that are way too big.
> > The extra resolution of the XO might make serifs more desirable
> > than they would be on regular PC hardware.
> Sure. But only in reflective mono mode.

Anti-aliasing, which Linux/Pango/Cairo (hence the XO) readily
supports, lets you do "sub-pixel" positioning of elements; I made a
Kanji font with Toshiba in the early 1980s with beautiful tapering
stroke widths and serifs. Others have dramatically improved upon these
techniques in the ensuing 3 decades.

-walter