Sugar's fonts

[Bert Freudenberg]

On Sep 30, 2007, at 16:23 , Yuan Chao wrote:

> On 9/30/07, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> The problem with serifs is that they often should be smaller
>>>> than a pixel for typical screen and font sizes. Well, that is
>>> 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
> Sub-pixel anti-alias rendering is provided by freetype w/o Pango/Cairo
> since at least Redhat 8 if I remember correctly. However, it won't
> increase the vertical resolution which is more important on serif
> fonts that have thinner horizontal strokes than vertical ones.

The XO display does not have sub-pixels. Vertical resolution is the  
same as horizontal, 200 dpi.

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